Text & Copyright: Hettie Putman Cramer & Makis Metaxas
Dedicated to the memory of two dear friends and collaborators who recently passed through the gates of the Sun: Dr. Andre Gerolymatos, Director of the Stavros Niarchos Chair of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Dr. Klavs Randsborg, the Danish archaeologist of world archaeology at the University of Copenhagen.
Photograph from AI.By interpreting the topography of the epic, its mythological substratum, and the traces left upon the land by our distant ancestors, we shall attempt, through this post and through those that will follow, to offer, as far as possible, a series of accessible answers for the wider public to the most frequently asked questions. These questions quite naturally arose after the first conclusions drawn from the excavations carried out in recent years in southeastern Kefalonia, and especially in the “Herakleion Plain”, the enclosed and irrigated valley of the ancient city-state of Pronnoi.
