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AN amateur British archaeologist has claimed to have discovered Ithaca, the homeland of Homer’s legendary hero Odysseus. Robert Bittlestone, who made the discovery along with two other experts said, the rocky island depicted by Homer in The Odyssey is part of the Greek tourist destination of Cephalonia. Bittlestone, who first came up with the idea in 1998, said he used satellite imagery to match the area’s landscape with descriptions in the poem about Ulysses’ return after the Battle of Troy, and came to his conclusions. He said he used his field trips to western Greece to study and analyse literary, geological and archaeological data and finally 3D global visualisation techniques developed by NASA for his purpose, reports the BBC. His new book Odysseus Unbound — The Search for Homer’s Ithaca, co-written by Cambridge University professor James Diggle, and geographic expert John Underhill from Edinburgh University, states that Ithaca was the peninsula, now known as Paliki, adding that earthquakes filled the narrow channel that separated Cephalonia from Ithaca. He also provides the details of 26 locations in The Odyssey that can be identified in today’s northern Paliki and its vicinity. Many experts had earlier referred to the island as Ithaki, saying that Homer lived much later than the events that took place, and that too in a different part of the country. — ANI |
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