wikipedia/ithaka skrev:Homer offers 26 descriptions of specific places on Ithaca, but these do not match the modern Ithaca. For instance, the modern Ithaca faces east, and it is mountainous -- it does not "lie low". Several explanations have been suggested for these discrepancies.
Firstly, it has been suggested that Kefallinia and Ithaca once may have been joined, because Homer describes Ithaca as being both much larger than it now is, and on the final edge of Greece "facing the western sunset". Geographical data also suggests that the islands once may have been connected, although research still is being done to prove this.
