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Rufus B. Richardson. Vacation days in Greece
Vacation days in Greece
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
CORFU
A DAY IN ITHACA
DELPHI, THE SANCTUARY OF GREECE
DODONA
THE BICYCLE IN GREECE
ACARNANIA
ÆTOLIA
THERMOPYLÆ
THESSALY
AN ASCENT OF THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN GREECE
A JOURNEY FROM ATHENS TO ERETRIA
TAYGETOS AND KITHÆRON
STYX AND STYMPHALUS
AN UNUSUAL APPROACH TO EPIDAUROS
MESSENE AND SANDY PYLOS
A TOUR IN SICILY
II
DALMATIA
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Rufus B. Richardson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Note.—Since excavating near Stauros in 1901 without finding any Mycenæan remains, Professor Dörpfeld has come to the conclusion that the true Homeric Ithaca was the Island of Leukas, that there was a grand confusing of names prior to Strabo, so that what was really the Homeric Same is now called Ithaca, and what was really Dulichion is now called Kephallenia. Something like this had been previously suggested in order to find a place for the Homeric Dulichion, and also to place Ithaca where it would lie “farthest out to the darkness” and “apart from the other islands.” In these two points Homer’s geography has never been quite satisfactory, but it is doubtful whether we shall get any revision of it which will be entirely satisfactory. It is possible that the results of Professor Dörpfeld’s excavations on Leukas may bring to light such Mycenæan remains as to make the scale tip in his favor. One point in his contention seems certain, viz., that Leukas is geologically an island, and as such should have found a place in the Homeric naming. But the whole question is adhuc sub judice.
