The Book - English Edition

Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca

Robert Bittlestone, with James Diggle and John Underhill

This page documents the English edition of 2005: click here for the Greek edition of 2007 (includes English updates).

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Publication date: October 6 2005. 618 pages, 340 colour illustrations. ISBN: 0521853575

'This curious, spellbinding book is a masterpiece of writing for the general public. The geological argument in particular is first-class and leaves me in no doubt about the possibility of the theory being proposed.'
Professor Tjeerd van Andel, Honorary Professor in Earth History, Quaternary Science and Geo-archaeology, University of Cambridge.

'This book is a gem. Its reconstruction of prehistoric Ithaca has a convincingly Homeric 'look and feel' to it. Reading the Odyssey is unlikely ever to be the same again.'
Professor Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature, Harvard University and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC.

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