The Odissey: a Baltic tale?

[viper37]

It's a thin reasoning.  But it's a fun read, nonetheless.  I like the conclusion of the author.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/baltic-odyssey/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

• The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer's twin epics, seem to contain signature details suggesting these stories took place in particular settings. 
• Where? Not the Mediterranean but the Baltic, writes an Italian amateur historian.
• So, is mythical Ithaca really the Danish island of Lyø? Other explanations are available.

The conclusion:

So, did Ulysses sail the Baltic and North Atlantic on his long journey home? Perhaps the best reply to that question is a saying popular in Vinci's native Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it's not true, it's a good story).

I'm gonna keep this saying in mind for the future. 

[Josquius]

I thought that it was the black sea was widely understood. Why say not the med.

Weird this guy can get publicity with such lunacy.
What would it take to get say, that Boudica was really a swedish invader, copied for people's amusement?

[The Brain]

Sweden is Atlantis, so why not?

https://www.ustc.ac.uk/news/swedish-visions-of-atlantis-olof-rudbeck-the-elders-atlantica

[Valmy]

Is it a good story? I don't know how it being in the Baltic improves anything. I mean this is a fictional story.

[grumbler]

I thought that it was the black sea was widely understood. Why say not the med.

Can you translate this Gibberish to English?  Google Translate cannot.

[Razgovory]

The Greeks didn't even know where any of these places were.  They were real fuzzy on northern Europe.  According to this guy the events of the Trojan war would have occurred over 7,000 years ago, which predates the Greek language by quite a bit.  It also predates Proto-Indo-European which is the mother language of Greek.  And the domestication of the horse.  And the use of bronze.  Etc, etc,

[crazy canuck]

It's a thin reasoning.  But it's a fun read, nonetheless.  I like the conclusion of the author.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/baltic-odyssey/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

• The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer's twin epics, seem to contain signature details suggesting these stories took place in particular settings.
• Where? Not the Mediterranean but the Baltic, writes an Italian amateur historian.
• So, is mythical Ithaca really the Danish island of Lyø? Other explanations are available.

The conclusion:

So, did Ulysses sail the Baltic and North Atlantic on his long journey home? Perhaps the best reply to that question is a saying popular in Vinci's native Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it's not true, it's a good story).

I'm gonna keep this saying in mind for the future. 

I seem to recall someone publishing a similar idea about 10 or 20 years ago.

[viper37]

Could very well be.  I've heard Ireland and England as possible destinations too.

[Maladict]

It's a thin reasoning.  But it's a fun read, nonetheless.  I like the conclusion of the author.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/baltic-odyssey/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

• The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer's twin epics, seem to contain signature details suggesting these stories took place in particular settings.
• Where? Not the Mediterranean but the Baltic, writes an Italian amateur historian.
• So, is mythical Ithaca really the Danish island of Lyø? Other explanations are available.

The conclusion:

So, did Ulysses sail the Baltic and North Atlantic on his long journey home? Perhaps the best reply to that question is a saying popular in Vinci's native Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it's not true, it's a good story).

I'm gonna keep this saying in mind for the future. 

I seem to recall someone publishing a similar idea about 10 or 20 years ago.

Yeah, those theories (including Troy being somewhere in Britain) had a resurgence in the 90s, but they go back to at least the 19th century.

[viper37]

It's a thin reasoning.  But it's a fun read, nonetheless.  I like the conclusion of the author.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/baltic-odyssey/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

• The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer's twin epics, seem to contain signature details suggesting these stories took place in particular settings.
• Where? Not the Mediterranean but the Baltic, writes an Italian amateur historian.
• So, is mythical Ithaca really the Danish island of Lyø? Other explanations are available.

The conclusion:

So, did Ulysses sail the Baltic and North Atlantic on his long journey home? Perhaps the best reply to that question is a saying popular in Vinci's native Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it's not true, it's a good story).

I'm gonna keep this saying in mind for the future. 

I seem to recall someone publishing a similar idea about 10 or 20 years ago.

Yeah, those theories (including Troy being somewhere in Britain) had a resurgence in the 90s, but they go back to at least the 19th century.

Well, Rome was founded by Trojan refugees, so... 

[The Brain]

It's a thin reasoning.  But it's a fun read, nonetheless.  I like the conclusion of the author.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/baltic-odyssey/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

• The Iliad and Odyssey, Homer's twin epics, seem to contain signature details suggesting these stories took place in particular settings.
• Where? Not the Mediterranean but the Baltic, writes an Italian amateur historian.
• So, is mythical Ithaca really the Danish island of Lyø? Other explanations are available.

The conclusion:

So, did Ulysses sail the Baltic and North Atlantic on his long journey home? Perhaps the best reply to that question is a saying popular in Vinci's native Italian: Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it's not true, it's a good story).

I'm gonna keep this saying in mind for the future. 

I seem to recall someone publishing a similar idea about 10 or 20 years ago.

Yeah, those theories (including Troy being somewhere in Britain) had a resurgence in the 90s, but they go back to at least the 19th century.

Well, Rome was founded by Trojan refugees, so... 

OK Elon.

[Tamas]

Obviously the reason for such silly theories is that otherwise your national pride must face the reality of your ancestors being unremarkable subsistence farmers at the same time the Greeks were inventing modern civilisation.

[The Brain]

The dude is

a nuclear engineer by training and an amateur historian by passion

which raises all kinds of red flags.

[celedhring]

"This imaginary story actually took place in XXXX and not in YYYY" is possibly the supidest subgenre of conspiracy theories. See: Atlantis.

[crazy canuck]

"This imaginary story actually took place in XXXX and not in YYYY" is possibly the supidest subgenre of conspiracy theories. See: Atlantis.

Yes, but it is consistent with people thinking the imaginary stories that took place in the Bible actually took place in this or that location.

Think about the arguments over where the garden of Eden was actually located, or the numerous trips to find the remains of Noah's ark.