The Authoress of the Odyssey, by Samuel Butler, [1922], at sacred-texts.com p. 225 Chapter XIII FURTHER EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF AN EARLY IONIAN SETTLEMENT AT OR CLOSE TO TRAPANI. I am often asked how I explain the fact that we find no trace in ancient authors of any tradition to the effect that the Odyssey was written at Drepanum or that the writer was a woman.