Not buying it.
The next theory is that it was either set in Africa, or based on an African tale.
Egg heads being egg heads.
https://faimao.blogspot.com/2024/09/i-watched-documentary-on-illiad-and.html
Years ago I remember reading a similar article but only remember one point. There was something about floating rocks in the Odyssey actually being ice. I read the Odyssey 65 years ago so I don’t remember details like that. It was one of my favorites.
Next they’ll claim Hamlet was set in Denmark.
Whoever believes that will also have to believe that the Baltic was much warmer in ancient times than today.
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
Nobody ever mentions Homer's last name, either. It was Simpson. And the only place I can see matching all of his geographical descriptions is Texas. Ulysses was really from San Antonio. If you've ever staggered along the River Walk there you'll agree.
What the article fails to mention is some recent evidence of climatic differences at that time. If we presume the Trojan war to be around 3200 BC, there is recent evidence that prior to that time there was significantly more rainfall in and around Anatolia, which would have resulted in much more vegetation. Historians looking at events leading up to the Bronze Age Collapse now believe that rainfall-driven agriculture was much more widespread and relied-upon due to the greater rainfall at that time.
From sediment cores in the Mediterranean, there’s also recent evidence of a sharp cooling trend right before the Bronze Age Collapse, which would have resulted in a sudden drop in rainfall due to much lower evaporation from the seas. There are Cuneiform tablets detailing pleas for food shipments from places in Anatolia (i.e. Hittite Empire) because of crop failures. It’s now thought that famines from that cooling trend might have precipitated the warfare that led to the collapse. Only the Egyptians managed to survive it, mainly because they had the Nile river to rely upon, but there’s evidence that even the Nile was affected by the sudden drop in rainfall and it resulted in Egyptian civil unrest. The Egyptians never fully recovered.
As for the Trojan War, my thinking is that if it actually happened, perhaps it was one of the first symptoms of the impending Bronze Age Collapse. If the cooling trend had already begun and rainfall had dropped off, it’s not a great stretch to envision Myceneans warring with one another when lack of food began to stress their civilization, the first ripples in a tide that eventually consumed nearly everyone in the eastern Mediterranean.
Like trying to figure out where the Hobbit takes place.
On a side note, just re-read the Odyssey earlier this year - more fun than when I had to read it in high school 50+ years ago.
Per: A black historian...
Really it was set in New England USA....
Per: Me...
It was set on a different planet...
Per: A Space Alien...
The Odessey took place on Qo’nos; it reads better in the original Klingon.
It actually takes place in Trenton, NJ. It was a dump even back then.
So, his real name was ‘Olaf’?.................
I don’t buy this - wasn’t this text used to find Troy, which is in modern Turkey? How does that even remotely correspond to Scandinavia?
I remember a TV documentary from the 1970s
probably BBC in origin that traced at the voyages of Odysseus in the Mediterranean. The spokesperson was retired RN officer who had a yacht. He sailed to each spot he thought matched the description in the Odyssey
So Odysseus was really named Ole …ya sure makes sense to me now.