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On Homer's Ithaca

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George and Davina Huxley on board the yacht Aphrodite off the coast of Ithaca
George and Davina Huxley on board the yacht Aphrodite off the coast of Ithaca

This is the link  https://ithacanhistorical.org/bulletin-2-2024  to an essay ‘On Homer’s Ithaca’, which is published today online in Bulletin 2 of the Ithacan Historical Society in Melbourne. The printed version will follow shortly. The essay was written in 2012 by my friend and mentor Professor George L. Huxley, an astonishingly brilliant and erudite man and the academic source for my books Odysseus’ Island and Walking in the Footsteps of Odysseus. I have been working on and off for months to get this essay into understandable form for those, including me, who are not scholars of Ancient Greek, whilst also making the absolute minimum of edits. I inserted the texts to which Huxley refers both in Ancient Greek and Modern English so that his message can be clarified. The English translations that I found online were, in several cases, replaced by equivalent translations from better-respected scholars by the clever Kyriaco Nikias, who also edits the Bulletin of the Ithacan Historical Society in Melbourne. This was a real bonus. To help understanding I also made maps of Ithaca and of it surrounding islands. The well-known photographer Robert McCabe kindly provided photographs taken during trip to Ithaca, together with George Huxley and his archaeologist wife Davina, in 2007.

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