The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the possible sanctuary of Odysseus. At a site known for over two centuries as 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 ...

ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Greeks on Friday hailed a new study showing the modern-day island of Ithaca is the same as that of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus, rejecting a recent British theory that ...

A new archeological project has uncovered artifacts that have helped identify the location of a centuries-old “hero-cult site” devoted to Odysseus, the famous Ithacan of Homer's Odyssey. The site, ...

Aerial view of the tranquil Kioni on the Greek Ionian island of Ithaca. Credit: Adobe Stock Aerial view of the tranquil Kioni ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

A stamped tile fragment with part of the name of Odysseus dates to the Hellenistic period. While archeologists still can’t definitively point to Odysseus’ existence, additional discoveries in the form ...

The twelve hanged maids of Penelope get their revenge in this ancient Greek story of heartbreak and sacrifice. At the end of the Odyssey, Odysseus returns to Ithaca and kills the suitors of Penelope.

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 ...