Next week makes seventeen years since my grandfather died. If he were alive now, he'd be ninety-nine and today would be his saint's day. He was a captain in the Greek navy, fluent in four languages, and the depth of his knowledge was staggering. He was well-versed in all things Homeric and I think he would have been intrigued by the following.
From the BBC:
Drilling 'boosts Homeric theory'
The Mediterranean island of Kefalonia was probably once two separate islands, new geophysical studies suggest.
A British-led team is amassing evidence that indicates Kefalonia's western peninsula, Paliki, was only recently joined to the main landmass.
The team believes a huge in-fall of rock in the last 3,000 years may have built a land-bridge between the two.
If correct, the researchers say, it would support their view that Paliki was the real site for Homer's Ithaca.
The location was supposedly home to Odysseus, whose mythical 10-year journey back from the Trojan War was chronicled in the Greek poet's epic tale The Odyssey.
New results from a test borehole and other survey work in the region lend support to the Paliki hypothesis, the team claims.
More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6256807.stm
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