Geological evidence supports dramatic theory about location of Homer's Ithaca
9th January 2007
Results were announced today of new geological work which supports the dramatic theory about the location of Homer's Ithaca put forward by Metapraxis Chairman Robert Bittlestone, Cambridge classicist Professor James Diggle and Edinburgh geologist Professor John Underhill. In 2005 they proposed that the Ithaca described in Homer's Odyssey is to be found on western Kefallinia, not the Greek island that is today called Ithaki. Within 24 hours the news had been relayed by over 100 newspapers, TV and radio stations world-wide.
The mystery of the whereabouts of Ithaca as described in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey has baffled scholars for nearly three millennia. But lines from the poem, which tells the story of Odysseus' journey home from the battlefield at Troy, contain significant clues about Ithaca's location.
Robert Bittlestone and his colleagues on the Odysseus Unbound project believe they have solved this long-standing enigma about the location of Ithaca by both identifying key clues within the Odyssey and by applying them to modern geography and geology using cutting edge technology. For example, satellite imagery helped to create relief maps of specific geographical areas, while 3D global visualisation software developed by NASA enabled Robert to simulate "flying around" the landscape on a computer screen.
Metapraxis applies analogous techniques and approaches to help solve modern business problems, particularly for large companies that need to make rapid improvements to the business relevance and future focus of their management information.
For further details on the most recent announcements from the project, please go to http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/news.html
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9th January 2007
Results were announced today of new geological work which supports the dramatic theory about the location of Homer's Ithaca put forward by Metapraxis Chairman Robert Bittlestone, Cambridge classicist Professor James Diggle and Edinburgh geologist Professor John Underhill. In 2005 they proposed that the Ithaca described in Homer's Odyssey is to be found on western Kefallinia, not the Greek island that is today called Ithaki. Within 24 hours the news had been relayed by over 100 newspapers, TV and radio stations world-wide.
The mystery of the whereabouts of Ithaca as described in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey has baffled scholars for nearly three millennia. But lines from the poem, which tells the story of Odysseus' journey home from the battlefield at Troy, contain significant clues about Ithaca's location.
Robert Bittlestone and his colleagues on the Odysseus Unbound project believe they have solved this long-standing enigma about the location of Ithaca by both identifying key clues within the Odyssey and by applying them to modern geography and geology using cutting edge technology. For example, satellite imagery helped to create relief maps of specific geographical areas, while 3D global visualisation software developed by NASA enabled Robert to simulate "flying around" the landscape on a computer screen.
Metapraxis applies analogous techniques and approaches to help solve modern business problems, particularly for large companies that need to make rapid improvements to the business relevance and future focus of their management information.
For further details on the most recent announcements from the project, please go to http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/news.html
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