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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since ancient times, the location of Homer’s Ithaca has been one of literature’s great conundrums. The third-century B.C. geographer Eratosthenes sighed, “You will find the scene of the wanderings of ...

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 ...

Signature Theatre’s latest production retells Homer’s epic through the eyes of the queen of Ithaca, proving once again that Penelope is a hero in her own right. Bechtel and his collaborators have set ...