Odysseus Comes Home

According to people who have a ton of time on their hands, Odysseus arrived in Ithaka on April 16, 1178 B.C.

Their evidence comes from star positioning and a total solar eclipse mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey.

Marcelo O. Magnasco of Rockefeller University in New York stated, “What we’d like to achieve is to get the reader to pick up the Odyssey, and read it again, and ponder.  And to realize that our understanding of these texts is quite imperfect, and even when entire libraries have been written about Homeric studies, there is still room for further investigation.”