Jasen Boko: Following Odysseus through the Mediterranean and the Adriatic

Jasen Boko in his lecture “Following Odysseus through the Mediterranean and the Adriatic”, and based on his book published in 2012, speaks on the beginnings of the Mediterranean and Odysseus, a man around which there is an entire mythology, and whose Mediterranean journey was described by Homer in the Odyssey, a book that stands in the foundations of European literature.

Boko uses a series of logical arguments, confirmed in the literature, talking about the direction of winds in the Adriatic and Homer’s descriptions, proving that Odysseus, after being blown away at the Peloponnesian cape, wandered the Adriatic sea for ten years, trying to get back to his Ithaca. Circe, Calypso, Cyclops, Lestrygonians, Aeolus…are early Dalmatian people for Boko, the representatives of Illyrian tribes who lived on the east coast of the Adriatic. What islands has Odysseus visited in the Adriatic, the hidden and less known part of the Mediterranean, and how he came to be there, find out in this multimedia lecture.