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Author: Felice Vinci Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1594776458 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
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Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean • Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece • Identifies the true geographic sites of Troy and Ithaca in the Baltic Sea and Calypso's Isle in the North Atlantic Ocean For years scholars have debated the incongruities in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, given that his descriptions are at odds with the geography of the areas he purportedly describes. Inspired by Plutarch's remark that Calypso's Isle was only five days sailing from Britain, Felice Vinci convincingly argues that Homer's epic tales originated not in the Mediterranean, but in the northern Baltic Sea. Using meticulous geographical analysis, Vinci shows that many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic. He explains how the dense, foggy weather described by Ulysses befits northern not Mediterranean climes, and how battles lasting through the night would easily have been possible in the long days of the Baltic summer. Vinci's meteorological analysis reveals how a decline of the "climatic optimum" caused the blond seafarers to migrate south to warmer climates, where they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean. Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that allow us to consider the age-old question of the Indo-European diaspora and the origin of the Greek civilization from a new perspective.
Author: Felice Vinci Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1594776458 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean • Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece • Identifies the true geographic sites of Troy and Ithaca in the Baltic Sea and Calypso's Isle in the North Atlantic Ocean For years scholars have debated the incongruities in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, given that his descriptions are at odds with the geography of the areas he purportedly describes. Inspired by Plutarch's remark that Calypso's Isle was only five days sailing from Britain, Felice Vinci convincingly argues that Homer's epic tales originated not in the Mediterranean, but in the northern Baltic Sea. Using meticulous geographical analysis, Vinci shows that many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic. He explains how the dense, foggy weather described by Ulysses befits northern not Mediterranean climes, and how battles lasting through the night would easily have been possible in the long days of the Baltic summer. Vinci's meteorological analysis reveals how a decline of the "climatic optimum" caused the blond seafarers to migrate south to warmer climates, where they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean. Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that allow us to consider the age-old question of the Indo-European diaspora and the origin of the Greek civilization from a new perspective.
Author: Kenneth Wood Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752463896 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.
Author: Janis Paliepa Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456729012 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 130
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The following commentaries regard the edition of Latvian Dainas and Vedic Hymns, published in Latvian. This monograph presents a broadened scope and discussion of Baltic and Vedic languages
Author: Corinne Ondine Pache Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108663621 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 974
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From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Author: Malena Lagerhorn Publisher: ISBN: 9781537602288 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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Melas jumped down from the chariot and stabbed at the man's bleeding belly, so that the bowels became visible and the life breath left his body. He started pulling off the man's well-made armor in shiny leather, but a blow on his shield made him stop. Ialmenus's shadow fell over him. "Do you want revenge or is your mind rather filled with thoughts of booty?" Ialmenus hit his spear on Melas's shield again, and Melas stumbled over and fell on his knees beside the wounded man. He looked up at Ialmenus who was like a black shadow, with the copper-glowing sun in the back. "When Ilion has fallen, you can loot your enemies," said Ialmenus. "When you have killed the men who burned down the house of your father, who burned your mother and your sister." He turned away from Melas and disappeared in the glowing dust and mist. Nordic Bronze Age - a mythical era 3,600 years ago. A time when black ships sailed across the Baltic Sea, when the elite built their power on trade and looting. A time when blood and honor, cunning and shrewdness decided who was the most feared ruler of the all the coasts and islands.Melas has been taken care of by relatives since his family was killed in a Trojan attack. He grows up with his cousin Thoas who becomes his ally in his dream of revenge. Together they swear an oath that they one day, as grown warriors, will sack Troy - Ilion - and burn the city to the ground. When Agamemnon, the most powerful chieftain of the Danaans, calls warriors across the Baltic Sea to a joint attack against Ilion, they see their chance. Ilion is an epic tale about the world's most famous Bronze Age battle ever, the battle of Troy, but in a Nordic setting according to a new theory by Italian nuclear engineer Felice Vinci. Malena Lagerhorn depicts a heroic and glorious era 2,500 years before the Vikings. Ilion is her first book translated into English. "The day has come when my theory has come to life in a fiction novel in the country of the proud Achaeans!" Felice Vinci, author of The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales
Author: Morten Joramo Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781456555245 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Homer CodeThe first part of this book sprang out of my initial discovery that Homer's legendary Island of Thrinacia, and Trenyken in outer Lofoten, Norway, are one and the same. At the time, this discovery was just a minor adjustment to the epoch making findings by Felice Vinci, that the whole Odyssey of Odysseus was originally located in the north. But this led me to review everything more carefully, also in light of other researchers, notably Iman Jacob Wilkens and J�rgen Spanuth, and more discoveries followed. The topic of the whereabouts of the world of Homer continued expanding through a later book (Atlantis Unveiled), however, and is now fully covered only in The Lost Civilization of the North from 2015.The reconstruction of the whereabouts of the ancient World of Homer in the North implies that there must have been an advanced culture in the high north thousands of years ago. This was used in the Homer Code as an intro to the Bock Saga, because it lends a lot of credit to what was until recently told about such a culture through an ancient storytelling tradition from Finland. Told from generation to generation in unbroken line since pagan times, the Bock Saga told a story of a Lost Civilization we until now only had been getting glimpses of through legends, conjecture and fairy tales.Ior Bock, the last of the Bock family lineage of storytellers, told from his family saga for 26 years, including where to find hidden treasures proving the validity of it all, until he was brutally murdered in his own home in October 2010. Before that I recorded as much as I could of what he told, through the fifteen years I had the pleasure of getting to know him.This book contains the most of what I have written in English about Ior Bock and the Bock Saga. It also brings some light onto the shadowy forces which eventually destroyed this most ancient culture, but that specific topic is perhaps more fully covered in my other book, Exposing the Alien Conspiracy. Morten Alexander Joramo
Author: Andrew Lang Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 406
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In the perpetual running fight about the Homeric Homer, Mr. Andrew Lang has been for some years a most prominent champion. In his latest return to the fray, " The World of Homer " (Jazzybee Publishing), he lays about him in a very joyous and triumphant mood. His foemen are all those who hold, in some form or other, that " the Iliad is a mosaic produced by a long series of Ionian additions to an Achaean ' kernel.' " Against them he maintains that '' the Iliad is, in the main, the work of a single poet, as is shown by the unity of thought, temper, character and ethos " ; that it is " a work of one brief period, because it bears all the notes of one age, and is absolutely free from the most marked traits of religion, rites, society, and superstition that characterise the preceding Aegean, and the later ' Dipylon,' Ionian, Archaic, and historic periods in Greek life and art" Homer is an Achaean poet, composing for Achaean auditors at a time when "the glow of Aegean (late Minoan, Mycenean) culture still flushed the sky." In support of his contention he writes nearly three hundred pages under such captions as "The Homeric World in War," "Homer and Ionia" "Bronze and Iron," "Burial and the Future Life," and "The Great Discrepancies." It goes without saying that the argumentation is serious. Some historians have long been in accord with Mr. Lang's principal views, while differing from him about many details ; but from friend and foe alike the book deserves attention.
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