Using boreholes and seismic imaging to analyze subsurface geological features, British researchers have provided a key confirmation of their claim that Ithaca, the home of the legendary Greek warrior Odysseus, was located on a present-day peninsula of the island of Cephalonia.
The jutting piece of land, the scientists say, was a small island separate from Cephalonia until rubble from landslides and earthquakes over the centuries filled the channel between them.
I still find the timing of this intriguing. One level of Troy was destroyed in the 12-13th century BC, as was much of the Mycenean culture in Greece.Many classicists argue that Ithaca, where Odysseus returned after the Trojan War ended about the 12th century BC, was an imaginary place. But scholars also said that about Troy before the city's remains were found on the northwestern coast of Turkey in 1870.
The Sea Peoples are a prime contender for the role of destroyer and they
had a distinctly Hellenic tinge to them. Certainly, archaeologists examining the Philistines have concluded that they were essentially Greeks.
What better way to whitewash a history of piracy than to claim that they were really some sort of Greek Heroes?