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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Foundation

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Greek translation of latest. We are pleased to announce the availability of a Greek translation of the recent. By Professor John Underhill of the University of Edinburgh. It has been translated from the magazine. Vol 9 No. 18 (September 2008) with the kind permission of the publisher Dr.Ted Nield. Magazine is the monthly color magazine of the Geological Society of London. Right-click to download Greek translation ( high resolution. For the English version, scroll down to Sep 1 2008. Full text of article.

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Authors

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Robert Bittlestone was educated in classics and science before reading economics at the University of Cambridge. In 1979 he founded Metapraxis Ltd. Odysseus Unbound: the Search for Homer’s Ithaca. In 2005, Robert had been in the forefront of the search ever since, until his untimely death. The brilliant work that he began is now being continued by his colleagues and associates.

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - Sponsorship

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A major research partnership was announced in March 2007 between FUGRO. Provider of geotechnical, survey and geoscience services), the authors of. Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer’s Ithaca. Robert Bittlestone, Professor James Diggle and Professor John Underhill) and IGME. Greece’s national geological survey). Rsquo;s Co-operative Awards in Science and Engineering). The sponsorship was essential in enabling a continuing programme of research to be supported instead of the periodic site visits an...

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Global Mapper technology confirms Homer’s description of ancient Ithaca as 'low-lying'. Latest version of software package calculates average elevation above sea level of Paliki vs. Ithaki. Click here for full size screenshots and instructions. NASA’s ‘World Wind’ Planetary Visualisation software pinpoints proposed site of ancient Ithaca. NASA's free 'World Wind' software can be downloaded to track the discovery. Fly around ancient Ithaca on your PC. Click here for full size screenshots and instructions.

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Foundation

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Testing classical enigmas - Geoscientist. Detailed results and photographs from the first year of sponsorship by Fugro of the. Project are released today and published in. Right-click here to download the full article: High resolution (13 Mb). Low resolution (3.7 Mb). The Identity of Ancient Ithaca: A Response. Reproduced with the kind permission of the Editor. Professor Luce refers to a ‘massive and shattering disproof’ of our hypothesis concerning the identity of ancient Ithaca (. Full text of article.

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Odyssey

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Odysseus and the Sirens'. Herbert James Draper, 1909. Ferens Art Gallery. Ldquo;At the sources of Western civilisation, themselves its main source, stand two poems on the grand scale which for sustained beauty and splendour have found no superior, perhaps no equal, in all the poetry that has followed them. This is the most remarkable fact in the history of literature.”. J A K Thomson. From the Prologue to. Nevertheless represent two of the world's oldest surviving texts. As a precursor to the development...

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca

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Professor John Underhill, leading member of the Odysseus Unbound team, receives top geology award * * *. Welcome to Odysseus Unbound. Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homer’s. So most experts think that he based his poem on stories he had heard of distant Ithaki. The geographical mismatch in his poems perhaps reflected his lack of familiarity with the Ionian Islands, together with the fact that he was composing a poem rather than a travel guide. Since 2003 an interdisciplinary project team...

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Discovery

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Today's islands of Ithaca and Cephalonia lie to the west of Greece, between Lefkas to the north and Zacynthos to the south. Although Ithaca is described as an island in the. Homer’s Cephallenians are the people who live there in the. Odysseus led the gallant Cephallenians,. From Ithaca and leaf-quivering Neriton,. I am Odysseus, Laertes' son, world-famed. For stratagems: my name has reached the heavens. Bright Ithaca is my home: it has a mountain,. Leaf-quivering Neriton, far visible. Where the African c...

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Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca - The Book

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The Book - English Edition. Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer’s Ithaca. This page documents the English edition of 2005: click here for the Greek edition of 2007. Cambridge University Press: website. Browse contents via Google Books. Publication date: October 6 2005. 618 pages, 340 colour illustrations. ISBN: 0521853575. Professor Tjeerd van Andel, Honorary Professor in Earth History, Quaternary Science and Geo-archaeology, University of Cambridge. Is unlikely ever to be the same again.”.

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Ithaca theory gains support - Geoscientist. Results of an offshore seismic survey and the first borehole to test the hypothesis that the Paliki peninsula of the Greek island of Kefallinia was once Homer’s Ithaca lend weight to the theory. The theory that the home of Odysseus, which has never been satisfactorily identified, was in fact a part of the modern island of Kefallinia that was once an island in its own right (. Odysseus Unbound - The Search for Homer’s Ithaca. Low resolution (3.9 Mb). Mdash; sugg...