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Felice Vinci

Felice Vinci (born 1946) is a Roman nuclear engineer, who studied classical Greek and Latin already in elementary school. He was given a book about Homer’s stories by his teacher early on in life and he became fascinated by the stories. He read them like modern children read Donald Duck or comics about super heroes.

His passion for Homer never left him, but when due to his work he found himself having more time to study them, he started again to study the Iliad, but now in classical Greek.

The spark for studying further the geography of Homer’s tales was given by Plutarch (50-125 A.D.), who writes that Ogygia, the island where Odysseus was kept prisoner by Calypso was not in the Mediterranean but rather a few days sailing from Britain in the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

Many since Plutarch had noted the difficulties with Homer’s geography, so also Vinci. But this time he really began studying the maps. Where then was Ogygia according to Plutarch?

Vinci embarked on an interesting journey tracing the path of Odysseus. For Vinci the journey ends with the birth of a new theory about Odysseus, Troy and Homer’s epics. He concludes that it all took place in the Baltic region between the Faroe islands and the Gulf of Finland.

Professor Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, who has written the preface of Vinci’s Omero nel Baltico, is the very person who has translated both Iliad and Odyssey into Italian. She reminds us that revolutionary new thoughts have often changed the way we think about things, and that an open mind is important in our desire to pursue truth.

Omero nel Baltico was published in Russian in 2004 and in English in the United States in 2005 by the name The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales - The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth.

Felice Vinci has given lectures on his theory in universities in Vancouver and Riga in 2002 and 2005. In 2004 he launched the Russian translation of his book in St. Petersburg Science Academy.

In the spring of 2005 he lectured on his theory in La Sapienza University in Rome where the book is required reading. In February of 2006 Vinci was invited to give a speech in a university in Padova in Italy.

Mr. Vinci emphasizes that his is only a theory which he hopes scientists would study with modern technology in order to really find the truth in the matter. He would like to propose that the European community could be based on something more than just common economic interests: a common cultural heritage.

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