The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...

Excavations at 'Homer's School' reveal artifacts bearing his name and a bronze statue, confirming the existence of an ancient ...

Archaeologists uncover Mycenaean cisterns, ancient inscriptions, and ritual offerings on Ithaca, suggesting Odysseus was once ...

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating ...

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 ...

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 ...

But Ithaca is no longer safe. Odysseus returns not as a conquering hero but as a beggar in disguise. He hides, watches, and plans. Athena helps orchestrate the reunion with Telemachus, and ...

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 physical manifestation of Athena, who serves as Odysseus’s divine protector throughout his ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, offers the clearest look yet at the ...