Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
...and how the Hell would one of those ships actually have survived the sea-trip through the rather... unwelcoming Bay of Biscay and North Sea ? The vast majority of Mediterranean vessels were teh suck for Atlantic sailing; the Phoenicians and Greeks going beyond the Pillars of Hercules AFAIK used designs rather heavier and more robust than was the norm for Med shipping.
More likely they would have gone upriver. But you'd have to be more than a little lost to think a river was part of the Aegean and that Ithaca was just around the corner.