Impressive map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad

TornosNews.gr 13.02.2017 | 14:43
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Impressive map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s IliadThis is a map showing where all of the characters originated in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad

This is a map showing where all of the characters originated in Homer’s epic poem The Iliad. I know Greece is small by today’s standards, but it was surprising to me how geographically widespread the hometowns of the characters were.

The Iliad is set sometime in the 11th or 12th century BC, about 400 years before Homer lived. I wonder if that level of mobility was accurate for the time or if Homer simply populated his poem with folks from all over Greece as a way of making listeners from many areas feel connected to the story — sort of the “hello, Cleveland!” of its time.

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