Following in Schliemann and Dorpfeld's footsteps.
Thursday the 11th of March 2010 at 7:30,
Room 10, New King's, Old Aberdeen.
Geoscientific evidence for the relocation of Odysseus' homeland, Ancient Ithaca.
John Underhill is the Professor of Stratigraphy in the Grant Institute of Earth Science
at The University of Edinburgh. He has been in Edinburgh since 1989 having previously
worked for Shell in London and Holland. Prior to that he undertook PhD studies in the
Ionian Islands of Greece, to which he returned in 1993 to conduct the geoscientific
quest to test Homer's and Strabo's geographic descriptions of the area. Over the past
six years, he has lead geological and geophysical teams who have been using the latest
geo-technology to test the notion that Odysseus' Homeland, Ancient Ithaca was not
located on the island bearing that name today but on the westernmost Paliki peninsula
of the neighbouring island of Kefalonia. Professor John R Underhill.