Engineers to help find Homer's Ithaca

ATHENS — A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to
help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland
of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus. It has long been thought that the
island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a
setting for the epic poem The Odyssey, in which the king Odysseus makes
a perilous 10-year journey home from the Trojan War.

But amateur British archaeologist Robert Bittlestone believes the Ithaca
of Homer is no longer a separate island but became attached to the
island of Kefallonia through rock displacement caused by earthquakes.
The theory could explain inconsistencies between Ithaki and Homer's
description of Odysseus' island.

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