A UK-led team is challenging cherished ideas on Greek mythology by proposing an alternative site for Ithaca.

The island was said to be the home of Odysseus, whose
10-year journey back from the Trojan War is chronicled in Homer’s epic
poem the Odyssey.

Most people think the modern-day Ionian island of Ithaki is the location.

But geologists are this week sinking a borehole on
nearby Kefalonia in an attempt to test whether its western peninsula of
Paliki is the real site.

The scientists hope to find evidence that the peninsula
once stood proud, separated from Kefalonia by a narrow, navigable
marine channel. It is only in the last 2,500-3,000 years - and after
Homer’s time - that the channel has been filled in, the team contends.

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