Homer tells us that ancient Greek hero Odysseus spent seven years on the island of Ogygia, a place that could be Ireland ...

Odysseus washes ashore on Calypso’s island, where he will be a kept man for seven years while Calypso helps him process his trauma (“Talk Talk Talk”). She doesn’t want to let him go. Athena convenes a ...

On Jan. 1, Christopher Arbor and his friends pledged to visit one Asheville brewery each week for all of 2025 in the order ...

The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made ...

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

Fragment of sealed tile, with part of the name of Odysseus, Hellenistic period. Credit: Χρ. Μαραμπέα / Greek Ministry of Culture . The flourishing of the complex is placed between the Hellenistic and ...

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...