Ancient History

Visit Ithaca, the journey’s end of Homer’s Odyssey and home of Odysseus: the homecoming …

Visit Corfu, the Odyssey’s island of the Phaeacians: Paleokastritsa and the petrified-ship legend, the …

Visit Gozo, identified as Calypso’s island of Ogygia where Odysseus spent seven years: Calypso’s …

Visit Monte Circeo near Rome, identified since antiquity as Circe’s island of Aeaea: the …

Visit the Sirens’ islands of Li Galli on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where Odysseus was …

Visit the Aeolian Islands, home of the Odyssey’s wind-god Aeolus: Stromboli, Vulcano and Lipari, …

Visit Sicily’s Cyclops Coast: where Odysseus blinded Polyphemus, the Faraglioni dei Ciclopi at Aci …

Visit Troy in Turkey, where Odysseus’s journey begins: the cited history of Hisarlik, what …

Follow in Odysseus’s footsteps across the Mediterranean: where scholars place every stop of Homer’s …