Enclosure
Eumaios let them graze inside the beautiful enclosure,
Back at home as I used Google maps for creating this website, I looked for a place where the livestock could have been penned. Eumaios arrived later in the day and the market will be closed by then.
Chances are low for finding it, but as you can see at the right, there is a big oval-shaped structure north of the palace, next to the suggested market. A modern road is constructed right through it, but the boundaries are still visible on google maps.
What a beautiful enclosure that is.
And it is still there, after 3200 years!
It must have been used and maintained as such till recently.
The enclosure is about 300m long and 150m wide.
If the whole Spartias area is used and maintained like the enclosure, the lay-out of the city must be visible too.
We'll discuss Ithaca town later.
Chances are low for finding it, but as you can see at the right, there is a big oval-shaped structure north of the palace, next to the suggested market. A modern road is constructed right through it, but the boundaries are still visible on google maps.
What a beautiful enclosure that is.
And it is still there, after 3200 years!
It must have been used and maintained as such till recently.
The enclosure is about 300m long and 150m wide.
If the whole Spartias area is used and maintained like the enclosure, the lay-out of the city must be visible too.
We'll discuss Ithaca town later.
Odyssey Book 20 line 144-145 Barry B Powell
Palace
Eumaios didn't bring the pigs into the palace itself. Homer writes:
Livestock market