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AI Article Readings · October 4 · 20 min

Has Homer's Ithaca been found at last?

For more than two thousand years, readers have looked for Odysseus’ home on an island, and modern Ithaki doesn’t match what Homer describes. Classicist Honor Cargill-Martin follows a geologist and a Cambridge Greek scholar through boreholes, Strabo and the fine print of Homeric vocabulary to a surprising candidate, and an epithet that may have been hiding the answer in plain sight. https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/has-homers-ithaca-been-found-at-last?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe

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For more than two thousand years, readers have looked for Odysseus’ home on an island, and modern Ithaki doesn’t match what Homer describes. Classicist Honor Cargill-Martin follows a geologist and a Cambridge Greek scholar through boreholes, Strabo and the fine print of Homeric vocabulary to a surprising candidate, and an epithet that may have been hiding the answer in plain sight.

https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/has-homers-ithaca-been-found-at-last?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web



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