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1059: 777: 719:, but the surviving accounts of Dictys do not give specific locations for the rest of the wanderings. Malalas' account of Dictys, however, tells us that Circe and Calypso were sisters ruling over neighbouring islands; that Odysseus visited a lake called Nekyopompos ("guide of the dead") near the sea, whose inhabitants were seers; that he passed some rocks called the Seirenidai; and Cedrenus' account seems to identify Scheria with Corfu, or at least an island near Ithaca. 4344: 20: 506:, living in the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD, says that he tries to strike a balance between reading Homer as an entertainer and as a historical source. He is Euhemerist to the extent that he believes that any hypothesis at all, no matter how outrageous, is more plausible than saying "I don't know"; in this regard he accepts Polybius' arguments completely. Strabo offers the most detailed surviving set of identifications: 203: 679:, who claims to have been present at the Trojan War, was probably written in the 1st century CE or perhaps a little earlier. It falls into a tradition of anti-Homeric literature, based on the supposition that Homer got most things about the Trojan War wrong by making virtuous people look like villains, and vice versa. It is important because later historians took Dictys as a historical record, including 1098:. Along the way he found locations at the natural turning and dislocation points which, he claimed, agreed with the text much more closely than the usual identifications. However, he also came to the conclusion that the sequence of adventures from Circe onwards derived from a separate itinerary to the sequence that ended with the Laestrygonians and was possibly derived from the stories of the 805:
of Odyssey with history unless we believe in the existence of gods, giants and monsters. Kakridis admits that one may indeed ask what real locations inspired these imaginary places, but one must always bear in mind that geography is not the main concern either of Odysseus (as narrator) or of the poet. Similarly, Merry and Riddell, in their late-19th century school edition of the
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can be mapped on the coasts of the northern Atlantic, occasionally surfaces. According to this, Troy is in southern England, Telemachus's journey is in southern Spain, and Odysseus was wandering the Atlantic coast. Finally, a recent publication argues that Homeric geography is to be found in the sky,
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may be compared with Eratosthenes in his approach to the problem. He argued that the Odyssey is a work of poetry and not a travel log. To attempt a quick outline of Kakridis's views, it is useless to try to locate the places mentioned in Odysseus' narrative on the map; we cannot confuse the narrative
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on his way back. After visiting the lotus-eaters he went to Sicily, where he encountered three (or four) brothers, Antiphates, Cyclops, and Polyphemus (and possibly Laestrygon, according to Septimius), who each ruled a portion of the island. Odysseus and his men were mistreated by each of these kings
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République des Champs élysées, ou, Monde ancien: ouvrage dans lequel on démontre principalement que les Champs Élysées et l'Enfer des anciens sont le nom d'une ancienne république d'hommes justes et religieux, située a l'extrémité septentrionale de la Gaule, et surtout dans les îles du Bas-Rhin; que
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accounts, which re-wrote mythical stories without their fantastic elements, and were often seen as thereby recovering "historical" records. The other reflects the conventions of foundation myths, whereby stories of a city or institution being founded in the course of Odysseus' travels often came to
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Greek settlements in Sicily and Italy, "During their first phase in the West, c. 800-740, stories of mythical heroes were not already sited at points along the coast of Italy or Sicily. It was only later that such stories became located there, as if mythical heroes had been driven westward or fled
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For these reasons, the opinions of later students and scholars about the geography of Odysseus's travels vary enormously. It has repeatedly been argued that each successive landfall, and the routes joining them, are real and can be mapped; it has been argued with equal conviction that they do not
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By contrast with these views, some recent scholars, travelers and armchair travelers have tried to map Odysseus's travels. Modern opinions are so varied in detail that for convenience they need to be classified, as do the ancient ones. This article deals first with those who believe, as did many
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contains many place names to the east and south of Greece, there are very few identifiable references to places to the west. As a result, he questions whether the western Mediterranean was known about at the time the original legends emerged (which he estimated to be some centuries before Homer
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as "king of the winds" on the grounds that Aeolus "taught navigators how to steer a course in the regions of the Strait of Messina, whose waters are ... difficult to navigate", and insists that the mythical elements in the wanderings are insignificant in comparison to the historical core.
92:. The places visited by Odysseus in his journey have been variously identified with locations in Greece, Italy, Tunisia, the Maltese archipelago, and the Iberian peninsula. However, scholars both ancient and modern are divided whether any of the places visited by Odysseus (after 292:
Some identifications are common to both groups. The main distinctions between them are in how the identifications were passed down through the generations, and the uses to which they were put. The most standard identifications, which are rarely disputed in ancient sources, are:
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sympathises with Eratosthenes, believing that Homer imagined the wanderings as having taken place in a kind of fairyland in the Atlantic; he actively criticises the standard identifications in and around Sicily, and refuses to offer any identifications of his own.
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Numerous places in Italy and northern Greece also had aetiological legends about cities and other institutions founded by Odysseus on his various travels. Among these foundation myths the continuation of Odysseus's travels told in the
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from Asia while leaving the sack of Troy." The heroic legends, including an Odyssean geography, served to attach newly founded western communities "to a prestigious ancestry in the Greeks' mythical past." Fox notes that even
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excavated the site, beginning in 1958. He found evidence of sacrifices to the dead that matched Homer's description of those made by Odysseus. Subsequently, the location was accepted by others as that described by Homer.
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A minority view is that the landfalls of Odysseus were inspired by places on a much shorter itinerary along the coast of Greece itself. One of the earliest to suggest any locations here was the 2nd century AD geographer
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Ancient sources provide a wealth of interpretations of Odysseus' wanderings, with a complex range of traditions which affect one another in various ways. Broadly speaking there are two dominant trends. One is that of
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was driven west or south-west from Cape Malea and, more than nine years later, returned from the west to his native Ionian islands: his landfalls are therefore to be found in the western Mediterranean.
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in turn. Notably, they were imprisoned by Polyphemus when one of Odysseus' men fell in love with Polyphemus' daughter (Arene or Elpe) and tried to kidnap her; but they escaped. They passed through the
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reports the standard identifications mentioned above. Herodotus and Thucydides do not actively euhemerise, but simply take local myths at face value for the political importance they had at the time.
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composed the poem) and so consequently he doubted whether the stories had their origins there. In addition he noted that the Acheron is marked on the map, but traditionally ignored, whilst in the
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The names of the places and peoples that Odysseus visits or claims to have visited are not recorded, either as historical or contemporary information, in any ancient source independent of the
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to the land of the lotus-eaters: it would take much longer than nine days to reach the Atlantic. He accepts the standard identifications around Sicily, and is the earliest source to identify
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Euhemerist accounts are generally those found in writers on antiquarian subjects, geographers, scholars, and historians. The most important ancient sources are the 1st century geographer
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Strabo's opinion (mentioned above) that Calypso's island and Scheria were imagined by the poet as being "in the Atlantic Ocean" has had significant influence on modern theorists.
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What happens to Odysseus in these places, according to his narrative, belongs to the realm of the supernatural or fantastic (to an extent that is not true of the remainder of the
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cet Enfer a été le premier sanctuaire de l'initiation aux mỳsteres, et qu'Ulysse y a été initié ...; que les poètes Homère et Hésiode sont originaires de la Belgique, &c.
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to the various locations seem confused and have given rise to much scholarly argument, beginning in ancient times. Odysseus' Ithaca is usually identified with the island
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and other geological changes over thousands of years can alter the landscape and seascape to the point where identification may be extremely difficult.
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had said in the late 3rd century BC: "You will find the scene of Odysseus' wanderings when you find the cobbler who sewed up the bag of winds."
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On the political importance of Corcyra's identification with Scheria, see e.g. C.J. Mackie 1996, "Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily",
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discusses the wanderings in book 34 of his history. He refutes Apollodorus' idea that the wanderings were in the Atlantic on the basis of
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Besonen, Mark R., Rapp, George(Rip) and Jing, Zhichun "The Lower Acheron River Valley: Ancient Accounts and the Changing Landscape" in
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The view that Odysseus's landfalls are best treated as imaginary places is probably held by the majority of classical scholars today.
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no longer raises geographical problems. The location of Nestor's Pylos was disputed in antiquity; towns named Pylos were found in
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We cannot know whether the poet envisaged the places on Odysseus' itinerary, and the route from each place to the next, as real.
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and attempted to locate Ogygia and the surrounding islands. G. Mair in 1909 proposed that the knowledge of America came from
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was subsequently built. However the location was overlooked or dismissed by many subsequently, until the archaeologist
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Working on the assumption that the discoveries at the Acheron could challenge the traditional assumptions about the
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530-510) was credited with the settlement and in due course the very 'cup' of Odysseus was shown at the site."
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of UFRJ, Brazil, proposed that Odysseus's journey to the Underworld takes place in South America. The river
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agrees with Strabo on the location of Calypso's island of Ogygia in the Atlantic, and specifically west of
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For a long time the most detailed study of Odysseus's travels was that of the French Homeric scholar
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Pays atlantiques décrits par Homère: Ibérie, Gaule, Bretagne, Archipels, Amériques; théorie nouvelle
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The earliest record of a foundation myth connecting Odysseus with Italy is the lines surviving in
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University of Pennsylvania, Department of Classical Studies, Interactive Map of Odysseus’ Journey
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This summary is based on a comparison of Septimius (5.15, 6.5) with Malalas (5.114-122 Dindorf).
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sailed a replica Greek sailing vessel (originally built for his attempt to retrace the steps of
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It can be doubted whether Odysseus' story is intended, within the general narrative of the
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is the Amazon; after a long voyage upstream Odysseus meets the spirits of the dead at the
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Fox 2008:173, noting Livy i.56.2; Polybius iii.22,11, and Strabo v.3.6 and commentaries.
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Les fictions d'Homere. L'invention mythologique et cosmographique dans l'Odyssee
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wrongly attributed to Apollodorus summarises most of the accounts given above.
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According to Dictys, Odysseus fled from Troy after being accused of murdering
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E.D. Phillips gives a very full treatment of myths that placed Odysseus and
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Shining in the Ancient Sea: The Astronomical Ancestry of Homer's Odyssey
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had described as a continent on the opposite side of the Atlantic (
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A key part of Severin's thesis is that whilst the text of the
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The prototypes for this tradition are in the 5th century BC.
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9.82, where Odysseus says that he sailed for nine days from
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is at least as important as the wanderings reported in the
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and its neighbours). There are also incidental mentions of
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Even if the places were envisaged as real, the effects of
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Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon
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Simpson and Lazenby, p. 82. See also the section headed
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as a headland in the territory of the Gindanes tribe in
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Setting aside the geographical knowledge shown in the
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off southern Tunisia; the land of the Cyclopes was at
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Odysseus' Journey: A map of the locations in Homer's
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in the Bay of Naples; most unexpectedly, Scheria is
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The 2213: 2208:The Ulysses Voyage: Sea Search for the Odyssey 1144:the Argonauts' home voyage took them into the 3898: 2569: 2451: 1476: 406:Euhemerist accounts become more prominent in 111: 48:The locations mentioned in the narratives of 2583: 2234: 2097: 942:in western Sicily; the island of Aeolus was 851: 706:for a while; he sacked the Ciconian town of 668:, which influenced Strabo's own discussion. 2012: 1700: 1013:elaborated on this hypothesis in his novel 985:woman, who presents herself in the poem as 156:, have greatly strengthened this view. The 3905: 3891: 2576: 2562: 2458: 2444: 2161: 2157:, Berkeley: University of California Press 2112:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2050:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2027:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2004:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 1977: 1889: 1680:Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer 1639:Ελληνική Μυθολογία, vol. 5: The Trojan War 1328:Earliest sources for this identification: 1317:Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer 977:developed a controversial theory that the 278: 2214:Simpson, R. Hope; Lazenby, J. F. (1970), 2188:The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought 1625:E.D. Phillips 1953, "Odysseus in Italy", 1581:, particularly notes on p21, p22 and p23. 1379:Earliest source for this identification: 1366:Earliest source for this identification: 1353:Earliest source for this identification: 631:estimated that “the great continent” was 543:Laestrygonians: south-east Sicily (1.2.9) 3668:On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey 2266: 2222: 2078: 2066: 2058: 1917: 1905: 1747: 1682:, 2008, ch. "Finding Neverland" p.170ff. 1666: 1654: 1057: 775: 201: 140:, and each claimed to be Nestor's home. 18: 4002: 3518:Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians 3311:Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions 2255: 2216:The Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad 2202: 2190:, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2177: 2143: 2125: 1962: 1921: 1854: 1839: 1759: 1735: 368:, who is our source for information on 4361: 2467:Places visited by Odysseus in Homer's 2152: 2088: 2035: 1986: 1704: 885:; the Laestrygonians were in northern 857:ancient authors, that the hero of the 359: 16:Locations mentioned in Homer's Odyssey 3886: 3724:On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 2557: 2439: 2235:Stanford, W. B.; Luce, J. V. (1974), 2169: 1866: 1813:, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), p. 302 1530:See especially 1.2.3, 1.2.17, 1.2.19. 1062:The Ambracian Gulf and the island of 915:; the homeland of Calypso was at the 443:Apollonius' successor as head of the 343:Ogygia, the island home of the nymph 3526:Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso 2243: 2194: 2185: 897:, just where Aeneas found it in the 214:(the tale that Odysseus told to the 148:ruins at the archaeological site of 2091:Die Geographie des homerischen Epos 907:; Scylla and Charybdis were at the 792: 722: 491:(ancient Meninx), off the coast of 178:The geographical references in the 104:reported what the great geographer 13: 3236:Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists 2413:based on the ideas of Iman Wilkens 2286: 903:; the Sirens were on the coast of 14: 4400: 3574:Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses 3542:Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous 2368: 2281: 2218:, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2130:, Portland, OR: Multnomah House, 2079:de Grave, Charles-Joseph (1806), 1156:Atlantic Ocean and other theories 1086:) along the "natural" route from 517:Cyclops: south-east Sicily, near 198:Geography of Odysseus's narrative 4343: 4342: 3756:Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey 3648:Historicity of the Homeric epics 2269:Die wirkliche Reise des Odysseus 1418:. Also, Bradford, Ernle (1963), 1046:in north west Greece, where the 1022: 3912: 3749:Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses 2120:A commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1970: 1956: 1911: 1899: 1883: 1860: 1833: 1816: 1811:American Journal of Archaeology 1803: 1765: 1753: 1741: 1729: 1710: 1694: 1685: 1672: 1660: 1648: 1632: 1619: 1606: 1593: 1584: 1564: 1555: 1542: 1533: 1524: 1515: 1506: 1497: 1488: 1464: 1455: 1442: 1433: 1424: 1383:1.25.4. It is notable that the 930:by A. A. M. van der Heyden and 771: 629:“Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia” 567:; or Sirenussae, a headland in 62:and in what are now called the 2267:Wolf, A.; Wolf, H.-H. (1983), 2098:Heubeck, A., ed. (1981–1986), 1404: 1373: 1360: 1347: 1322: 1309: 1296: 1267: 1246: 1225:can be decoded as a star map. 1168:, Calypso's island one of the 993:, especially the territory of 768:, his son by Circe, in Italy. 422:'s island with Gaulos (modern 164:("Pylos") by its inhabitants. 1: 3511:Jar with Odysseus and Elpenor 3428:Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 3335:The Lost Books of the Odyssey 2149:(contribution by Michel Gall) 981:came from the pen of a young 780:Map of Ulysses' travels from 702:. He first went north to the 666:On the wanderings of Menelaus 514:, following Polybius (1.2.17) 463:The 2nd century BC historian 289:have political significance. 42:right-click on map to enlarge 3778:Between Scylla and Charybdis 3369:The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 3295:The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 2641:Laertes (father of Odysseus) 2409:Map of the geography of the 2275:], München: Langenmüller 2273:The Real Journey of Odysseus 2164:Viagem ao inferno mitológico 2013:Bérard, Victor (1927–1929), 1315:Recently by Robin Lane Fox, 1003:The Authoress of the Odyssey 928:Atlas of the Classical World 911:; the Island of the Sun was 639:sailors who had reached the 546:land of the Cimmerians: the 380:that goes under the name of 218:, forming books 9-12 of the 7: 3861:Parallels between Virgil's 3558:Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus 2162:Mattievich, Enrico (1992), 2126:Johnson, Laurin R. (1999), 2122:. Oxford, 1988-92. 3 vols.) 2038:Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée 1627:Journal of Hellenic Studies 1439:Thucydides 1.25, 3.88, 6.2. 1228: 946:off Sicily; Calypso was on 881:; the island of Aeolus was 651:on the Timaeus, 24E - 25A. 563:: either Cape Faro, by the 391:identifies the land of the 10: 4405: 4248:Hanging Gardens of Babylon 3271:Les Aventures de Télémaque 3169:O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2146:The Adventures of Odysseus 1978:Ballabriga, Alain (1998), 1410:Strabo 7.3.6, referencing 800:The modern Greek Homerist 171: 112:Geography of the Telemachy 4338: 4278: 4258:Massacre of the Innocents 4221: 4113: 4057: 4050: 4026:Lectio difficilior potior 3920: 3786: 3765: 3740: 3713: 3608: 3503: 3478: 3395: 3353: 3254: 3195: 3112: 2968: 2910: 2839: 2711:Other monarchs and royals 2710: 2606: 2597: 2476: 2170:Mertz, Henriette (1964), 1561:Plato, Timaeus, 24E - 25A 1414:' account in relation to 1273:Strabo 1.2.15, quoted by 962:; the island of Circe is 852:The western Mediterranean 333:), off the west coast of 325:Scheria, the land of the 96:and before his return to 4369:Geography of the Odyssey 3643:Geography of the Odyssey 3534:The Sorrow of Telemachus 2059:Bradford, Ernle (1963), 2015:Les Navigations d'Ulysse 1992:Dans le sillage d'Ulysse 1603:(Brussels), p. 46 n. 27. 1240: 1042:took place at the river 557:(ancient Pontus; 1.2.10) 322:off Sicily's north coast 4389:Ancient Greek geography 4384:Greek mythology studies 3987:Comparative linguistics 3826:The Apotheosis of Homer 3590:Odysseus and Polyphemus 3550:The Apotheosis of Homer 2392: 2155:The Returns of Odysseus 2036:Bérard, Victor (1927), 1304:Atlantic Ocean theories 784:English translation of 615:. He also repeats what 279:Ancient identifications 4010:Contextual credibility 3598:Ulysses and the Sirens 3582:Ulysses and the Sirens 3566:The Sirens and Ulysses 3487:Tales of Brave Ulysses 2256:Wilkens, Iman (1990), 2237:The Quest for Odysseus 1614:The Beginnings of Rome 1579:Loeb Classical Library 1122:) and that Scheria is 1067: 789: 586:Scylla and Charybdis: 256:, to be taken as true. 207: 45: 4236:Sources and parallels 2259:Where Troy Once Stood 2245:Voss, Johann Heinrich 2153:Malkin, Irad (1998), 1950:Where Troy Once Stood 1788:, and a river called 1777:Description of Greece 1503:Strabo 1.2.37, 7.3.6. 1279:The World of Odysseus 1061: 1038:, suggested that the 1035:Description of Greece 779: 753:, who ruled over the 457:Apollodorus of Athens 445:library of Alexandria 318:= one or more of the 210:The geography of the 205: 22: 4329:Vaticinium ex eventu 4070:Acts of the Apostles 4032:Multiple attestation 3731:On Translating Homer 3460:Odysseus, Verbrecher 2523:Scylla and Charybdis 2399:"The World of Homer" 2228:The Odyssey of Homer 2197:We Followed Odysseus 2186:Romm, James (1994), 2178:Obregon, E. (1971), 2144:Lessing, E. (1970), 2074:, Paris: Maisonneuve 1824:Hesperia Supplements 1601:Les origines de Rome 1142:Apollonius of Rhodes 917:Straits of Gibraltar 483:explicitly with the 481:Scylla and Charybdis 432:Apollonius of Rhodes 4374:Fictional countries 3972:Cognitive philology 3809:Suitors of Penelope 3675:Rediscovering Homer 3616:Homeric scholarship 3137:The Return of Ringo 2239:, New York: Praeger 2230:, London: Macmillan 2089:Hennig, R. (1934), 2068:Cailleux, Théophile 1612:T.J. Cornell 1995, 1450:Classical Quarterly 1258:Trojan Battle Order 1235:Homeric scholarship 950:. 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Index


Homeric
Greece
Catalogue of Ships
Iliad
Odysseus
Odyssey
Peloponnese
Ionian Islands
Ithaca
Troy
Phoenicia
Egypt
Crete
Iliad
Ismaros
Ithaca
Strabo
Eratosthenes
Telemachus
Pylos
Sparta
Elis
Triphylia
Messenia
Strabo
Mycenaean
Ano Englianos
Palace of Nestor
Linear B

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