Odysseus grav - sant eller osant?

[Widsith]

I somras dök det upp en del notiser här och där om att Odysseus grav skulle ha hittats på ön Poros, men sedan har det varit väldigt tyst om detta. Var det ett påhitt, eller finns det någon kärna av sanning bakom detta påstående?

[Ralf Palmgren]

Hur kan det bevisas källkritiskt att en grav tillhör en mytisk personlighet i den klassiska grekiska mytologin och dessutom få påståendet att hålla inför en kritisk granskning är märkligt. Vet någon hur det vetenskapligt kan bevisas?

[Dûrion Annûndil]

Tja, om man hittar en mykensk kungagrav med attribut som följer myten om Odysseus så... Kanske.

One find there is particularly telling. In Book XIX of the ?Odyssey,? the just-returned and still disguised Odysseus tells his wife (who may or may not realize who she?s talking to; Homer is deliberately ambivalent) that he encountered Odysseus many years earlier on the island of Crete. He describes in detail a gold brooch the king wore on that occasion.

A gold brooch meeting that precise description lies now in the archeological museum at Argostoli, the main city on Kefalonia, 30 miles across the island from Poros. Other gold jewelry and seals carved in precious stones excavated from the tomb offer further proof the grave outside Poros was used to bury kings.

Greek archeologists also found sections of ancient city walls extending for miles through the hills around and well beyond Poros. These surround both the village and a steep adjacent hill which bears evidence it once served as an acropolis, what the Greeks called hilltop forts in most of their major cities. The stones of the walls date to about 1300 B.C., the approximate time of events described in the ?Iliad? and ?Odyssey.?

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Why hasn?t all this been reported before? Because of local politics and economics. The most active promoter of the Poros area as Homeric Ithaca is the current mayor, who at one time was governor of the prefecture (county or small state) including both Ithaca and Kefalonia.

Gerasimos Metaxas, an author and amateur archeologist who gladly shows visitors remains of the ancient city call and innards of the tomb, was defeated for reelection as governor when he began promoting the Poros-as-Ithaca idea in Greek publications. Why? If Poros is Ithaca, who would ever go to the barren island now using the name? And if tiny Poros ever gets a huge tourist and cruise ship influx, what happens to Argostoli, now the center for those trades on Kefalonia?

As a result, the entire find has never been reported in the non-Greek press. And so far, major world media show little or no interest in the tale. But for lovers of Homer?s sagas, there?s now no place more appealing than Kefalonia.

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Mvh -Dan

[Robert Sköld]

Håller med Ralf, rent och skärt önsketänkande ligger mina slantar på.

/Robert Sköld

[Leonidas]

Poros ligger väl strax söder om Pireus och ganska långt från Ithaka, som ligger på andra sidan i Adriatiska havet?

Känns lite väl långsökt. Hur kan man veta exakt hur guldbroschen såg ut?

[Dûrion Annûndil]

Poros ligger väl strax söder om Pireus och ganska långt från Ithaka, som ligger på andra sidan i Adriatiska havet?

Känns lite väl långsökt. Hur kan man veta exakt hur guldbroschen såg ut?

Poros ligger på Kefalonia, ett färjeläge på andra sidan ön från Argostoli.

[Leonidas]

Ok, då stämmer åtminstone geografin...