In due course Greeks did found such a place, the first western Greek settlement of this period, which sits very well with the contacts we have been following. 2 Fabulous stories arose about such adventurers, but perhaps not directly from them, in a phase when Greeks were travelling into new landscapes, exchanging goods, making contacts with strangers but not as yet founding a new home of their own. 800 BC onwards, but it would be excessive to make the Odyssey itself a Euboean creation. It is tempting to identify these adventurers as Euboeans, travelling west beyond Ithaca from c. Ultimately these types of story developed from tales of seaborne Greek adventurers who were known to have set off for far-distant lands, probably in the west, away from the direction of Circe, daughter of the (rising) sun. Into Odysseus’ journey Homer worked his incomparable tales of travels in the lands of the Lotus–Eaters or the Cyclops where calm and abundance were so dangerous and dreadful hazards lay. 1 Its hero lived on Ithaca, off the north-west coast of Greece, to which he gradually travelled home. In these early Greek travels to western Italy we are close to the roots of an element which went into Homer’s Odyssey.
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