Author: Bittlestone, Robert ; Diggle, James ; & Underhill, John
Title: Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. orig.boards. 26x18cm, xx,598 pp.. Textual maps & illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer's Odyssey? The mystery has baffled scholars for over two millennia, particularly because Homer's descriptions bear little resemblance to the modern island called Ithaki. This highly illustrated book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of the true location of Homer's Ithaca by following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues. We can now identify all the places on the island that are mentioned in the epic - even the site of Odysseus' Palace itself. The pages of the Odyssey come alive as we follow its events through a landscape that opens up before our eyes via glorious colour photographs and 3D satellite images.Over a century after Schliemann's discovery of Troy, this breakthrough will revolutionise our understanding of Homer's texts and of our cultural ancestors in Bronze Age Greece" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Homer Odyssey, Ithaca Ithaki, Cephalonia Island, Ancient Greece, Greek Literature, Archaeology, Literary History, Philology Trojan