While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Was Ithaca truly Odysseus’ home? New discoveries have revived debate on the Homeric hero due to rich archaeological and ...

At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus finally journeys back from the fallen city of Troy to Ithaca, where he once reigned as king. Disguised, Odysseus finds his kingdom infested with once-loyal suitors ...

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 ...

According to the prime minister, Greece is emerging from bailout life like Odysseus coming home to Ithaca. This comparison could use some work. In 2010, at a picturesque port on the island of ...

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 ...