Exciting new data on the historical and cultural development of Ithaca have emerged at the archaeological site of Homer's ...

Archaeologists from the University of Ioannina working for decades at the main archaeological site of Agios Athanasios on the ...

The 2024 film on “The Return [of Odysseus to Ithaca]” mirrors the fear and power of cinematographers. The producers of the 2024 film did not read the Odyssey carefully. They ignored the Trojan ...

Ithaca on the western shore of Greece. The distance there from Troy, Hal Roth tells us, is only 565 nautical miles. But due to some celebrated doings (and undoings), Odysseus wound up logging ...

The story follows a hero, Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who is trying to return home to his family after fighting in the Trojan War. He uses his strength and cunning to defeat many challenges ...

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It tells the story of the homecoming, the terrible, difficult, disastrous journey of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, one of the leading Greek heroes who devised the wooden horse and was responsible ...

The first is, of course, Odysseus the King of Ithaca who travels to Troy in order to take part in the ten-year skirmish to return Helen to her husband Menelaus after she was taken by the Trojan ...

“On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her husband Odysseus.” The camera then cuts to the wreckage of a ship and the body of a man washed up on the beach ...

Despite the centuries-long significance of the text, not many films have tackled its events directly, and Pasolini focuses on Odysseus’ “nostos” or his return to the island of Ithaca after ...