For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

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These inscriptions provide new evidence about the cult of Odysseus in Ithaca. A miniature bronze bust of Odysseus ... Dating the fountain to the Mycenaean palace period seems highly probable, as ...

On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made ...

The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.

We Followed Odysseus Hal Roth Seaworthy Publications. Ithaca on the western shore of Greece. The distance there from Troy, Hal Roth tells us, is only 565 nautical miles.

In Homer’s epic, this critical encounter occurs in Book 13, when Odysseus awakens on the shores of Ithaca. Initially, Athena disguises the landscape so Odysseus doesn’t recognize his homeland.