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THE
GEOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES
OF
ITHACA.
CHAP. I.
HOMER—VENETIAN GEOGRAPHERS—MEDALS.
IN an age of investigation and research like the present,
it is remarkable that while the Iliad and the scene of its
battles have excited such particular attention, little or no
recent information has been offered to the public on the
subject of Ithaca, the theatre of the principal action of the
Odyssey and the kingdom of its hero. The object of the
following sheets is to give a short account of that interesting
island, and to point out more particularly those features
which may appear to have been described in the poem.
These descriptions occur so rarely in the Odyssey, that
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GEOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES
OF
ITHACA.
CHAP. I.
HOMER—VENETIAN GEOGRAPHERS—MEDALS.
IN an age of investigation and research like the present,
it is remarkable that while the Iliad and the scene of its
battles have excited such particular attention, little or no
recent information has been offered to the public on the
subject of Ithaca, the theatre of the principal action of the
Odyssey and the kingdom of its hero. The object of the
following sheets is to give a short account of that interesting
island, and to point out more particularly those features
which may appear to have been described in the poem.
These descriptions occur so rarely in the Odyssey, that
B