this site dedicated to the crew of the Sultan A
- Eyup, Omer - and the Captain Bekir

and to Suleyman and Andrew who stopped us getting lost , ignorant or drowned - many many thanks !

it is a paste up of pictures of the Lycian coast taken in September 2008 - hopefully it will look good one day - but at the moment the site is very much under construction ...

Lycian Cruise

details HERE

http://www.guide-martine.com

THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS

The new era, that began with Alexander the Great and ended with Roman Emperor Augustus (30 BC), is called the Hellenistic Period when oriental spirit mixed with Greek civilization.

HERE

Homer
(from the British Museum)

Homer is the purported author of The Odyssey (and also of The Iliad), who presumably lived some time in the 8th or 7th century BC. His existence is disputed by some scholars who see inconsistences in the two epic poems, but supported by others who see the overal consistency and argue that the poems can only be the work of a single genius. What is definitely known is that both The Iliad and The Odyssey underwent a process of standardization and refinement, especially during the times of the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus (6th C. BC), who reformed the recitation of Homeric poetry. Almost nothing is known about Homer. The Aegean island of Chios, and ancient Greek cities in the west coast of Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) have claimed to be his birthplace. When the Roman emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi who Homer really was, Pythia answered that he was from Ithaca, the son of Telemachus and Epikaste (Telemachus was the son of Odysseus). If Homer existed, he was probably a blind bard, which is inferred from an incident assumed to be self-referential in Rhapsody Θ (8), in which the blind bard Demodocus sings for the Phaeacian king and public.

http://www.foundalis.com/lan/c/HomerOdysseyEn.htm

The following is an interesting depiction of the Mediterranean world as imagined by ancient Greeks at Homer’s time (picture from Wikipedia, original here):The Odyssey is composed of 24 rhapsodies (“books”). Due to their number, each is given the name of one among the 24 letters

Map of landmark places mentioned in The Odyssey

The above figure, although it grossly misrepresents reality, can be used as a reference while reading about Odysseus’s journey (which, after all, did not correspond to reality).

http://www.bluecruise.org/map/index.html

Astronomy pasteup pages

basic	HERE
resources	HERE

just a scrapbook of good explanations found on the web

in my attempt to understand basic principles of Astronomy - no permissions for use asked , sorry - but hopefully all acknowledged to their source with much gratitude

http://www.lycianturkey.com/index.htm

web design from

http://www.manisheriar.com/holygrail/leftcol.htm	HERE
also
http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/perfect-3-column.htm	HERE
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts	HERE
and more tekstuff	HERE