Sicilian Odyssey
\WitH admirable cunning, Professor L. G. Pocock lured his _ listeners from talk to talk in his series, Adventure in the Odyssey, by hints of yet greater marvels to come. And certainly he made an exciting tale of his journey to Sicily to confirm Samuel Butler’s identification of modern Trapani as the site of Nausicaa’s iskand, and possibly of Ithaca also; and of his subsequent discovery on a map of sites for most of the othér scenes in the Odyssey about the coasts of Sicily. and of the seas to the West; and his growing con-
viction that the story is a true one of a real man, heavily disguised in allegory. I am no Greek scholar, nor a scholar of any kind; I have read the Odyssey only in one of the recent translations which the Professor dislikes; and, objectively, I couldn’t care less whether it was written in Sicily or Greece, or was true or not. But from now on I’m _ rooting for Professor Pocock, just as I was sure that a man who could write an exciting book like Kon-Tiki must be right in his theories of Polynesian migration. I look forward to the Professor’s book and to whatever shindies may follow-as they will, I suppose, scholars being harder to con-
vince than I.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 21
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