If you have ever tried to draw a geological cross-section under a fantasy map, Homer is surprisingly cooperative (and if you remember my Middle-earth geology post, you already know I live for this). The Odyssey is full of real places and real people—Troy, Mycenae, Sparta—stitched together with storms, monsters and divine interventions that would make any structural geologist reach for a stress ten ...[Read More]
The truth about The Odyssey: Geodynamics, lies, cries and the hunt for Ithaca
Odysseus (drama queen) and Strabo trying to understand where is Itaka. Illustration made by Lea Pennacchioni