ODYSSEUS UNBOUND

“There seems to be no doubt at all that Paliki was once a separate island from the rest of Kefalonia.”… Read More

“Bittlestone’s theory is fundamentally simple… and it is almost certainly correct.”… Read More

“The book provides… a departure point in an investigative project of impressive potency. This augurs well for its future acceptance.”… Read More

“[Bittlestone] is the first to have tried to prove in a systematic way that Paliki, during historical times, formed its own island as identified in Homer’s description of Ithaca. It is an original theory that needs to be investigated further.”… Read More

“The geological argument in particular is first-class and leaves me in no doubt about the possibility of the theory being proposed.”… Read More

[Bittlestone’s] case for equating Paliki with Ithaca is breathtakingly cogent. Site after site is shown to jibe with the details of Homer’s narrative.”… Read More

“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”.… Read More

“’Epoch-making’ aptly describes what this book has unleashed.”… Read More