Karaburun Peninsula

In Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, old Nestor, recounting the voyage home from Troy, recalls a moment of decision: should the ships sail by way of the open sea off Chios, or past “windy Mimas”? That windy Mimas is this mountainous peninsula reaching into the Aegean like an arm, which we now call Karaburun… A place known for its wind three thousand years ago says the same thing today with the wind turbines turning on its ridges; as if to prove that Homer was not wrong.