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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles, Anatolia, Bosphorus, Bactria, Cilicia, Mysia, Delos, Lykaion, Colchis, Abae, Acherusia, Aetolia, Geography of the Odyssey, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Misthi, Cappadocia, Regions of ancient Greece, Members of the Delian League, Taurica, Arachosia, Golden Horn, Cassiterides, Odysseus Unbound, Cytorus, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Achaea, Messenia, Ariana, Marmara Island, Areopagus, Phocis, Aeolis, Lake Copais, Mygdonia, Paropamisadae, Ilissos, Drangiana, Dolopia, Ayas, Adana, Iardanus, Taphians, Thraco-Macedonian, Upper Macedonia, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, Trachis, Parauaea, List of Graeco-Roman geographers, Massaliote Periplus, Gedrosia, Calpe, Pelasgia, Salmacis, Cimiatene, Tymphaea, Adrasteia, Pitane, Tetrapolis, Puranda, Borysthenes, Parrhasius, Hazlitt, Tripolis, Neaethus. Excerpt: Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey (excluding the narrative of Odysseus's adventures) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbours). Incidental mentions of Troy and its house Phoenicia, Egypt and Crete hint at geographical knowledge equal to, or perhaps slightly more extensive than that of the Iliad. However, scholars both ancient and modern are divided as to whether or not any of the places visited by Odysseus (after Ismaros and before his return to Ithaca) were real. The geographer Strabo came down squarely on the sceptical side: he reported what the great geographer Eratosthenes had said in the late 3rd century BCE: "You will find the scene of Odysseus's wanderings when you find the cobbler who sewed up the bag of winds." Undaunted, many have made the attempt. The journey of Telemachus to Pylos and Sparta no longer raise geographical problems. The location of Nestor's Pylos was disputed in antiquity; t...
