Vedran Sinožić – CALLISTO AND OUR TROY

Dear employees of the Lestrigon tourist agency, Having seen your website, which preserves and protects our oldest historical and cultural heritage associated with the works of Homer, I decided to contact you with a few words. I am the author of the book Our Troy, which brings the discovery of Troy and Ithaca on the Adriatic. Further research prompted me to write a second book – Callisto, which, among other things, also talks about the location of the Lestrigonians, which is precisely the area of Omiš, and not other competing locations such as Boniface in Corsica. First of all, I would like to give full support to Jasen Boka, for the sake of preserving our prehistory.

In short, I entered this story – about the correct location of the land of the Laestrygonians – in a very skeptical way, not following my first impressions, which are still extraordinary in their description, and I gave my model without the influence of other researchers. Here is what decided it – the land of the Laestrygonians is not an island, because Homer would have explicitly stated this, like the descriptions of all the other places that Odysseus visited. – the land of the Laestrygonians is somewhere on the road from Aeolia, the middle of the Mediterranean, to Ithaca, which is in the west of Kvarner, it is a road that Odysseus knows, because only in one previous episode does he travel expertly towards Ithaca, so in the second attempt he sets off on the same path, that is, again from the middle of the Mediterranean on the FAMOUS road to Ithaca. – The Laestrygonians are not wild cannibals like the Cyclops, but they are in fact civilized inhabitants of the city of a famous hero from Homer’s Achaean world. – However, suddenly Odysseus transforms them into giants and cannibals, and this is because they caught him in an unexpected trap. The explanation for this is as follows: – Odysseus turned on his way to the famous port of his leader Agamemnon, not knowing that there had been a coup in the state at that place and that Agamemnon had been killed, and the government had been replaced and was now hostile to Odysseus, who was at that moment the greatest threat to it. – The Laestrygonians are therefore another, artificial name for the former friends and allies.

I presented this theory in my second book Callisto, which is currently in print, and as soon as it is available I will send it to you, so that you have another confirmation (independent of other theories and authors who also talk about Omiš) of the location of the Laestrygonians, which is indeed Omiš and the area around it. I would also like to say that I appreciate people who care about preserving old epics, and who recognize that their land is that mystical mythical place, making efforts to ensure that this legend does not lose its shine. Of course, our tourism also requires a story with heart and soul, which successfully unites all the elements, and I hope that this letter of mine will help you, and of course my new book. Author of the book Our Troy, Vedran Sinožić, Novigrad Istarski, 26.12.2018.