POROS KEFALONIA 1260 BC (FANTASY)

I WANT TO SHOW WITH THIS PICTURES HOW THE RIVER (VOHINAS) AT POROS KEFALONIA COULD HAVE BEEN AT THE YEAR 1250 BC. WHEN ODYSSEUS MIGHT HAVE HAD HIS KINGDOM IN THAT AREA.

POROS KEFALONIA TODAY.(ABOVE PHOTO)

Poros Kefalonia

THIS SUMMER COME TO KEFALONIA.

ANINNATA KEFALONIA TODAY

ANINNATA IS A SMALL MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHEASTERN KEFALONIA. 

THE BIG EARTHQUAKE OF 1953 FLATTENED MOST OF THE HOUSES WITH MANY VICTIMS. 

AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, FOR SEVERAL YEARS RESIDENTS REMAINED WITHIN THE DILAPIDATED HOUSES WITH TEMPORARY REPAIRS.

THIS EARTHQUAKE WAS THE REASON FOR POROS, A NEW VILLAGE BY THE SEA, WAS TO BE BUILT.

RESIDENTS FROM ANINNATA AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES MOVED THERE.

TODAY. POROS IS A BIG TOURIST ATRACTTION AND HAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PORTS IN KEFALONIA.

(SHOWN HERE ARE SOME PICTURES OF HOW ANINNATA LOOKS TODAY)

THE ODYSSEY AT POROS KEFALONIA PART 3

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Q Book VIII  

And this was how they settled it in the end, for the city was doomed when it took in that horse, within which were all the bravest of the Argives waiting to bring death and destruction on the Trojans. Anon he sang how the sons of the Achaeans issued from the horse, and sacked the town, breaking out from their ambuscade. 

Book IX  181
When we got to the land, which was not far, there, on the face of a cliff near the sea, we saw a great cave overhung with laurels. It was a station for a great many sheep and goats, and outside there was a large yard, with a high wall round it made of stones built into the ground and of trees both pine and oak.

 Book IX 452
Is it because you know your master has lost his eye, and are sorry because that wicked Noman and his horrid crew have got him down in his drink and blinded him?

L Book XI  148
Your wife still remains in your house, but she is in great distress of mind and spends her whole time in tears both night and day.

Bk XIII:366-415 Bk XIII:366-415

 Bk XIV:1-47    He had laid huge stones and topped the walls with a hedge of thorn. Beyond them he had set large close-set stakes along each side, oak stakes split to the black heart of the tree, then he had built twelve sties close together inside the yard to hold the pigs, and there were fifty breeding sows penned, wallowing there, in each. The boars slept outside, and there were far fewer of these since the noble Suitors had thinned out their numbers with their feasting, the swineherd sending them the pick of the fatted hogs.

Bk XIII:366-415     Then go first and find the swineherd, who may be only a keeper of your pigs but feels well-disposed towards you, and loves your son and loyal Penelope. You will find him with the swine that feed their rich flesh by Raven’s Crag, near the Spring of Arethusa, eating their fill of fattening acorns, and drinking the clear black water. Sit with him, there, Odysseus, and question him fully, while I go to Sparta, 

STONE MONSTERS PART 2

IN THE AREA (LIMENIA) OF POROS KEFALONIAS THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF SMALL AND LARGE STONES SCATTERED IN AND OUT  OF THE SEA.

PEOPLE PASSING BY CAN SEE THAT THIS STONES MAKE UP VARIOUS

RECOGNIZABLE  FORMS.

BY GIVING THEM ONE EYE THEY APPEAR AS MONSTERS....

THE ODYSSEY AT POROS KEFALONIA PART 2

 13 N Book XIII
                         When the bright star that heralds the approach of dawn began to show. the ship drew near to land. Now there is in Ithaca a haven of the old merman Phorcys, which lies between two points that break the line of the sea and shut the harbour in. These shelter it from the storms of wind and sea that rage outside, so that, when once within it, a ship may lie without being even moored.

    13 N Book XIII

At the head of this harbour there is a large olive tree, and at no distance a fine overarching cavern sacred to the nymphs who are called Naiads. There are mixing-bowls within it and wine-jars of stone, and the bees hive there. Moreover, there are great looms of stone on which the nymphs weave their robes of sea purple- very curious to see- and at all times there is water within it. It has two entrances, one facing North by which mortals can go down into the cave, while the other comes from the South and is more mysterious; mortals cannot possibly get in by it, it is the way taken by the gods.

3 PHOTOS FROM POROS KEFALONIA