Ithaca is in Germany!
Don’t worry, I’m not out of my head. I’m reading Tacitus’s Germany; in case you’re a bit lost, Tacitus was a Roman historian from the 1st century a.c. and Germany is a study of the peoples to the north of the Roman Empire. The very first page argues that the Germans must be a very pure race, indigenous to their country and not immigrants from anywhere else. Why? Because no one would go to Germany if they belonged anywhere else
Not to speak of the danger of a terrible and unknown sea, who would have left Asia or Africa or Italy and sought Germany, which is rough in terrain, bitter in climate, gloomy to live and to see, unless it be one’s native land?
I had to laugh when I read that. Tacitus could have been talking about Cornell! Tacitus wouldn't have believed that eventually people would come to these cold places for an education.
Not to speak of the danger of a terrible and unknown sea, who would have left Asia or Africa or Italy and sought Germany, which is rough in terrain, bitter in climate, gloomy to live and to see, unless it be one’s native land?
I had to laugh when I read that. Tacitus could have been talking about Cornell! Tacitus wouldn't have believed that eventually people would come to these cold places for an education.