September 8, 2008

Wow, lots of good video lately. Earlier, we had one of our authors on CNN, questing for the real Ithaca.

Now, After Bush author Tim Lynch has appeared on C-SPAN’s Afterwords.

He was interviewed by American Enterprise Institute scholar Gary Schmidt.

Click the picture above to watch the full interview at C-SPAN’s site.

The Odysseus Unbound saga continues

Where is the Ithaca of Homer, home to Odysseus? This has been a point of contention, since today’s Ithaki bears little resemblance to Homer’s description of the island.

Enter Robert Bittlestone. He has signed up as project sponsor for a company that specializes in seismic detection, sonograms and the like, bringing with him Professor John Underhill (Edinburgh, geology) and Professor James Diggle (Cambridge, classics). His work stresses visualization of data — what better tools to discover an island matching Homer’s description!

I can’t really do justice to the breadth of work being done on this — have a look at CNN’s recent report:

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