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Homeric world (5)

Island

Asteris

ASTERIAS (Small island) KEFALLONIA
A small island between Samos (= Cephallonia) and Ithaca, with a harbour (Od. 4.846).

Trojan War

KEFALLONIA (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
Same or Samos, later Cephallonia, participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.634, Od. 4.671).

Place-names according to Homer

Thiakata, Fereoussa, Korakopetra

MONOPOLATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
The above mentioned "names", origin unknown, remind us of the Homeric Ithaca.

Suitors

Ctesippus

SAMI (Ancient city) KEFALLONIA
A suitor of Penelope, who came from Same (Od. 20.300, 22.279 & 285).

Ctesippus, a son of Polytherses of Same, one of the suitors of Penelope, was killed by Philoetius, the cow-herd. (Hom. Od. xx. 288, &c., xxii. 285, &c.)

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