Odysseus unbound : the search for Homer's Ithaca /

Odysseus unbound : the search for Homer's Ithaca /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Bittlestone, Robert, 1952-
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:xx, 598 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Homer -- Knowledge -- Ithaca Island (Greece)
Homer. -- Odyssey.
Homer.
Odyssey (Homer)
Antiquities.
Literature.
Ithaca Island (Greece) -- In literature.
Cephalonia Island (Greece) -- Antiquities.
Greece -- Cephalonia (Municipality)
Greece -- Ithaca Island.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5753330
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Other authors / contributors:Diggle, James.
Underhill, John, 1961-
ISBN:0521853575 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [569]-581) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Text, translation and images
  • Part I. Speculation
  • 1. Catastrophe
  • 2. Conundrum
  • 3. Odyssey
  • 4. Controversy
  • 5. Schizocephalonia
  • 6. Strabo
  • 7. Geology
  • 8. Coincidence
  • 9. Competition
  • 10. Ambush
  • 11. Poseidon
  • Part II. Exploration
  • 12. Thinia
  • 13. Phorcys
  • 14. Eumaios
  • 15. Asteris
  • 16. Telemachos
  • Part III. Assimilation
  • 17. Analysis
  • 18. Inquiry
  • 19. Landscape
  • 20. Quickbird
  • 21. Doulichion
  • 22. Laertes
  • 23. Network
  • 24. Pottery
  • 25. Drama
  • 26. Exodus
  • Part IV. Revelation
  • 27. Rockfall
  • 28. Earthquake
  • 29. Uplift
  • 30. Shoreline
  • 31. Epiphany
  • 32. Ithaca
  • 33. Intuition
  • 34. Vision
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. James Diggle: A philologist reflects
  • Appendix 2. John Underhill: The geology and geomorphology of Thinia
  • Appendix 3. Exploratory technology
  • Appendix 4. A comparison of Homeric theories
  • Appendix 5. Postscript

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