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Modern Day Odyssey

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I decided to go with the legend of the iliad and the odyssey. It sounds so fake right? Wrong! Well somewhat wrong. Archaeologists in Greece have claimed to have found odysseus's home in modern day Ithaki. The location "fits like a glove" nearly matching homer's description. "The layout of the complex, where Professor Thanassis Papadopoulos and his team have been digging for 16 years, is very similar to palaces discovered at Mycenae, Pylos and other ancient sites." This claim however created too much skepticism. Some claim that homers home is not on modern day Ithaki. Some claim that it is on the Paliki peninsula. Although Ithaca was an island they claim Paliki Peninsula is Ithaca. They claim this to be true because the Paliki Peninsula was once an island but has since been connected to Cephalonia. They claim it was connected by rock slides created by earthquakes. Many things inside the story are claimed to be true. Such as all of the mortal characters, the fact that odysseus was shipwrecked twice, and the fact that he returned home to slaughter all of penelope's suitors. However other components in the story such as the Cyclops, Zeus, the Sirens, and the witch …show more content…

But with all the different names and descriptions it has become extremely difficult for them. Scholars actually believe Odysseus may have been two people. One being Odysseus and one being Ulixes. Hence the latin name ulysses.They believe these two were combined into one intricate personality. The name Odysseus means one of two things. Number one being hate; or hateful. Number two being pain or son of pain. Both of these fit Odysseus in one way or another. The first meaning, hatred fits him because of all the hatred he shows to the suitors/servants (killing them all was unnecessary and hateful). The second definition son of pain fits him in a prophetic way because he experiences so much pain and suffering when he was trying to get

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