http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ithaca.htmlAccording to the Odysseus Unbound project, ?The new research shows that [Paliki], this 6 kilometre-long and up to 2 kilometre-wide isthmus contains no solid limestone down to at least 90 metres below today?s surface. The fill is loose material, some of which originated through catastrophic rockfall from the earthquake-prone mountain range to the east.?The newly released data provide significant support for the theory that the peninsula of Paliki, today connected to the island of Cephalonia by an isthmus, was once separate, low-lying island of Homer?s Ithaca. As scholar Gregory Nagy of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., told Smithsonian Magazine in 2006: ?We?ll never read the Odyssey in the same way again.”This may be of intrest here. 🙂