Stillman, an American painter, journalist and consul who knew Greece well, sailed the Ionian islands to test the geography of the Odyssey against the real coasts, harbours and islands. A second study investigates the discovery on Melos of the statue called the Venus de Milo and how it reached the Louvre, weighing the conflicting accounts.
A learned and personal piece of travel archaeology for lovers of Homer and the Greek seas. Download the free EPUB.