News

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...
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 ...
Archaeologists in the UK uncovered a mosaic from the Roman era depicting the famous battle between two protagonists of the ...
In his poem “Ithaka,” the Greek writer C.P. Cavafy offers both sympathy and wisdom to Odysseus, Homer’s hero, as he returns ...
We meet Odysseus first of all in “The Iliad,” the great war poem about the Trojan War. There Odysseus is one of the captains fighting the Trojans, but he is only one among many, and his army ...
Indeed, it serves as a sequel to the Iliad, which details the 10-year Trojan war. For anyone who isn’t familiar with Greek mythology, the story of Troy and Odysseus’ role in the struggle is ...