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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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After travels and adventures coming home from the Trojan War, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) finds drama when he returns home to Ithaca in "The Return." "The Return” (in theaters now) might not be ...

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 ...