Lost island home of Odysseus Found After 3000 Years

[bemildred]

FOR almost 3,000 years, its location has been a mystery, but classical scholars around the world are now convinced that a British businessman and amateur archaeologist with a passion for Homer has found the island of Ithaca, home of the Greek hero Odysseus and the site of his palace.

Many thought that the island existed only in the imagination of the Greek poet Homer and in his epic, the Odyssey. Certainly his description of it did not match the Ionian island now called Ithaca, but, after following a detective trail of literary, geological and archaeological clues, scholars led by Robert Bittlestone, a management consultant, have identified Paliki, an area of Cephalonia, as the site.

Calssicists have been overwhelmed by the compelling evidence.

James Diggle, Professor of Greek and Latin at Cambridge University and co-author of a book on the discovery, said that almost all of the 26 locations that Homer described in detail can be identified today in northern Paliki and its neighbourhood.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1804409,00.html

[Maple]

1. They've found

Robinson Crusoe's island too.

There's hope for Atlantis yet.

[onager]

2. Frequent query to national parks in Cobb County, GA...

Where are Scarlett and Rhett buried, and are they buried together?


http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7474/blpark.html

[Maple]

3. LOL Figures

[Xithras]

4. That may just be the dumbest webpage I ever read.

I can't believe that some people are actually that stupid. They must be Bush voters.

[onager]

5. Here's another one

I can't find the LA TIMES story online...at least for free.

But a few years ago, the TIMES ran a story about Park Rangers who work in Southern California.

The Rangers said they spent a LOT of time pulling huge SUV's out of snowbanks, dry washes, creeks, mudholes etc.

And they always heard the same excuses from the people who got stuck:

1. "My SUV is only 2-wheel-drive? Gosh, I really thought it was 4-wheel-drive!"

2. "I bought this model of SUV because the TV commercials showed it going thru snow and mud and everything."

The Rangers had devised a special radio code to cover these kinds of rescues.

The radio code was "TNS."

That's short for: "Thwarting Natural Selection"

[Tesha]

6. LIcense plates "ID10T" needs assistance at the following -20... (NT)