Heh... I remember now, I put a gun to your head and everything. Homer wasn't just one person, but the Iliad and Odyssey are defintely set in the Mediterranean basin (the Odyssey is only superficially set in the Med basin, since it's filled with romance-novel witches, bondage, and such; I agree with Samuel Butler that it was written by a woman).
The idea of a lost ancient civilization located at the North Pole at a time when its climate was friendlier to human habitation...
That's a nice trick, since the North Pole is in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. But I'm going to add those books to my shopping list. :^)