10 January 2007

Homer's Home


Homer, the ancient Greek poet, is known for creating perhaps the two most well known epic poems in the world: the Iliad and the Odyssey. In the Odyssey, the hero, Odysseus, lived on Ithaca, a Greek island whose actual location has been debated by historians and geographers. Scholars now believe they have identified this mysterious island. For more details, read this recent CNN article.

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