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 Homeric Ithaca

Late prehistoric era in western Greece and the topography of Homer's (Mycenaean) Ithaca.  

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 The unique ‘harbour of Rheithron’ in Homeric Ithaca

    (excerpt from the book: Homeric Ithaca, H. Putman Cramer / G. Metaxas)

  The mouth of the Vohynas where it emerges from the Poros gorge. In the background is Mount Ainos   
                                                                        Aerial photograph of  Poros by George Avgoustiniatos

Homer locates the "harbour of Rheithron" in Homeric Ithaca in the area ‘below [or near] to the wooded Neïon’ (the ὑπονήιος area),  just outside the city (Άστυ).
Today most translators agree that the Neion was a mountain on Homeric Ithaca. It is our belief  that  ὑπονήιος  [hypo-neion] area (the area ἐπὶ, ὑπὸ (περὶ, παρὰ) τὸ νήιον), that is the area near the

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The famous Cave of the Nymphs in the Thirteenth Book of the Odyssey.

 (excerpt from the book: Homeric Ithaca, H. Putman Cramer / G. Metaxas)

The dramatic lake-cave of Melissani    (Karavomilos- Sami, Kefalonia)

The famous Cave of the Nymphs in the Thirteenth Book of the Odyssey together with Mount Neriton are mentioned by Homer as one of the main landmarks of Ithaca.

Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge, was well aware of the importance of these  landmarks

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Mount Neriton of Homer’s Ithaca

Points of identification between Mount Neriton of Homer’s Ithaca and Mount Ainos on Kephallenia, which lies within the purlieus of the Pronnoi district

(excerpt from the book: Homeric Ithaca, H. Putman Cramer / G. Metaxas)

                                                                 Mount Ainos.                          Photo by Dimitris Vandoros

Taking Homer’s descriptions as cardinal points for study and analysis, we find that Mount Neriton is mentioned in every description of Homeric Ithaca, of which it is an integral part worthy of being mentioned and described whenever the opportunity arises. As we shall see, it is abundantly clear that Mount Neriton

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South eastern Kephallenia and the Topography of Homeric Ithaca

(excerpt from the book: Homeric Ithaca, H. Putman Cramer / G. Metaxas) 

Recent excavations and archaeological research[i] have shown that the Pronnoi (Πρόννοι) district, in the South eastern part of Kephallenia (Kefalonia), contains a great many prehistoric sites. The outstanding find in this area has been the monumental Mycenaean royal tholos tomb[ii] outside the village of Tzannata, which attests to the existence of a major city of some importance beyond its own borders, ruled by a Mycenaean prince.[iii]

Aerial photograph of the Mycenaean royal tholos tomb at Arès near Tzannata, just outside the impressive Poros gorge, which was excavated from 1992 to 1994 by Dr. Lazaros Kolonas, who became later the  General Director of Antiquities in the Ministry of Culture.

(Photo: Lazaros Kolonas)

It is a fact that after more than a hundred years of excavations in the Ionian Islands – mostly on Ithaki,[iv] where finds attesting to Mycenaean habitation have been few and far between – it appears from the

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