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Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone & James Diggle & John Underhill
The Search for Homer's Ithaca
Extraordinary story of the exciting discovery of the true location of Odysseus' homeland of Ithaca.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. |
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| Author(s) : James Diggle | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0521853575 | ISBN-13 : 9780521853576 |
| RRP : £30.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 19/09/2005
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page Length : 618mm
Page Size : 214mm