Baldric

[Peter Raftos]

I will have to challenge that theory. That is Dorpfeld's theory, from early last century, which has been challenged since the mid '70s The Phaidon Press book Quest for Ulysses by WB Stanford and JV Luce cover's this ground and puts Homeric Ithaka back on Ithaki. I read the same descriptions and it can't be Leukada because in Homer's time it was a peninsula and the modern ship canal hadn't been built. Homer describes Ithaka as an island. Kephallinia is pretty good in parts to use horses and Athena says to Odysseus Ithaka is unfit for driving horses. Dorpfeld has no arguments that are based on archeology or mythology to support his hypothesis.

But I am biased :wink: .

(I'll get back to you on those flight times but in 1997 when I visited Hellas it took forever; and I haven't visited New Zealand since I was a child - some people tell me the Maoris are still cannibals :lol: )