Pat gets a no-prize she can use to fire arrows through twelve axeheads (oh go look it up) for bringing us news of a new candidate for Odysseus's home of Ithaca:

Although the western Greek island of Ithaki is generally accepted as the Homeric site, scholars have long been troubled by a mismatch between its location and geography and those of the Ithaca described by Ancient Greece's greatest poet.

Robert Bittlestone, a management consultant, said Thursday that the peninsula of Paliki on the Ionian island of Cephallonia, near Ithaki, was the most likely location for Odysseus' homeland. He said geological and historic evidence suggested Paliki used to form a separate island before earthquakes and landslides filled in a narrow sea channel dividing it from Cephallonia.

The theory makes several (for once) testable predictions that should go a long way toward determining if this new candidate really could have been Ithaca, or if other more traditional sites still hold sway over the claim.