Archaeologist and professor at the University of Patras Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou transfers us to Antiquity with her book “Ocean-going Islands” on this Saturday’s special edition of the show ”Fair Winds andFollowing Seas” with Antonis Karagiannakis.
How were the ships of the Mycenaeans and Homeric heroes? Why were they opening up in the “wide sea” and what were their destinations? What were they looking for in their trans-Mediterranean voyages and how did they cope with the difficulties on sea routes? What was life like at sea and where were they looking for safe anchorages? Which peoples interacted on the decks of ships and how did the sailors and civilizations of the Aegean world interact with those of Egypt, Phoenicia and Cyprus? What were the secrets of choosing timber and what tools did they have at their disposal? How did they build ships without original skeletons and without nails? All these questions are answered in a simple and direct way by Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou.
At the same time, the archaeologist and professor together with the Xylokastro team have set out to experimentally construct the Mycenaean “eikosoros”, that is, a sailing vessel with 20 rowers of the era of the Mycenaean Civilization, like the one of Odysseus and his companions.