Baltic Origins Of Homers Epic Tales : The Illiad The Odyssey and the Migration of Myth

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For years scholars have debated the incongruities in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey given that his descriptions are at odds with the geography of the areas he purportedly describes. Inspired by Plutarch's remark that Calypso's Isle was only five days sailing from Britain Felice Vinci convincingly argues that Homer's epic tales originated not in the Mediterranean but in the northern Baltic Sea. Using meticulous geographical analysis Vinci shows that many Homeric places such as Troy and Ithaca can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic. He explains how the dense foggy weather described by Ulysses befits northern not Mediterranean climes and how battles lasting through the night would easily have been possible in the long days of the Baltic summer. Vinci's meteorological analysis reveals how a decline of the climatic optimum caused the blond seafarers to migrate south to warmer climates where they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean. Through many