Is there any evidence that the Odyssey is based on real events, or is it just a fictional story invented by Homer?
Was Ithaca truly Odysseus’ home? New discoveries have revived debate on the Homeric hero due to rich archaeological and ...
New important data on the historical and cultural evolution of Ithaca has emerged from the University of Ioannina research at the archaeological site known as Homer's School since the start of the ...
During Lord Byron’s idealistic romp around Greece in the early 1820s, he stopped off at Ithaca, where the islanders showed him the ruins of an ancient site guaranteed to get a poet’s pulse racing: the ...
Even more provocatively, Bittlestone, who was able to draw upon sophisticated technological tools unavailable to scholars before him, believes that events like those described in the Odyssey may well ...
In place of Odysseus’s 20 years at sea, Joe Goodkin only needed a guitar to bring a fresh version of the Odyssey back to Ithaca. Musician Joe Goodkin performed Joe’s Odyssey, a modern western musical ...