Re: An appeal to early listeners to R4

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:13:03 +0100, Kate Brown
<elvira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <d54nj1t89q6ugb86429jnpobpcvli9bht8@xxxxxxx>, dated Thu, 29
>Sep 2005, Mike Ruddock <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>> This morning (Thursday 29/9) I was drowsily listening to R4 at
>>about 0630 and half heard an interview with some man who had written a
>>book about the location of Odysseus' island, Ithaca.
>>
>> I have an interest in Odysseus, not to mention theories about
>>the whole account of both Trojan War and the Odyssey(1) and would
>>dearly like to know what this man was on about. Did anyone else hear
>>it? (2)
>>
>>1. Tim Severin seems to have nailed the Odyssey, but no one I know
>>have has pointed out the gross errors in The Iliad. I have never
>>considered that the location of Ithaca was open to debate. The
>>location of Odysseus' home is certainly uncertain (3) but this guy
>>seemed to question the location of the island.
>>
>>2. Don't mention LA - I don't have broadband and try to keep the phone
>>bill just short of bancrupcy proceedings.
>>
>>3. Does thsi qualify as one of those oxywhatsits?
>
><warning, contains sort of proxy slight knickerflash>
>The book is called:
>Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca
>by
>Robert Bittlestone, James Diggle, John Underhill
>http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521853575
>
>and it will shortly be available on Amazon (there's a pre-booking
>option)
>
>But I'm going to hear Bittlestone tonight at the Athenaeum and will
>report tomorrow. I LA'd the clip from Today (it was at 6.55, if
>anyone's interested) and I have to say, I hope he has his information
>marshalled tonight a bit more adequately than this morning. Basically,
>his theory (and it is his)(well, his with a bit of help from his friends
>and apparently also the Athenaeum Library) is that Homer's descriptions
>of things don't match present-day geographies because various large
>geological events have happened since, and if one actually reconstructs
>the area using stratigraphical information then one can see exactly what
>Homer was on about, and it was right.
>
>Or so I gather. More tomorrow.

Thanks for that, Kate. Have you read Tim Severin's book (The
Ulysses Voyage)? He locates the voyage home entirely to the East of
Italy thus ruling out the traditional location of Scylla and Charybdis
in the Straights of Messina.
I will look out for the Bittlestone book and maybe put it on
my birthday list/

Mike Ruddock

Www: luxate


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