Mycenae’s Lion Gate, the shaft graves Schliemann dug in 1876, and why the Mask …
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The Odyssey
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Greece
Ithaca: Was This Really Odysseus’s Home? The Evidence, and How to Visit
By Emily MacArthur 161 ViewsVisit Ithaca, the journey’s end of Homer’s Odyssey and home of Odysseus: the homecoming …
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Greece
Corfu’s Odyssey Connection: Paleokastritsa, the Petrified Ship and Nausicaa’s Shore
By Emily MacArthur 245 ViewsVisit Corfu, the Odyssey’s island of the Phaeacians: Paleokastritsa and the petrified-ship legend, the …
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Malta
Calypso’s Cave on Gozo: The Cave Is Closed, Here’s What to See Instead
By Emily MacArthur 162 ViewsVisit Gozo, identified as Calypso’s island of Ogygia where Odysseus spent seven years: Calypso’s …
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Italy
Monte Circeo: Circe’s Island on Italy’s Riviera of Ulysses, 90 Minutes from Rome
By Emily MacArthur 191 ViewsVisit Monte Circeo near Rome, identified since antiquity as Circe’s island of Aeaea: the …
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Italy
Li Galli: The Sirens’ Islands off the Amalfi Coast, and How to See Them
By Emily MacArthur 139 ViewsVisit the Sirens’ islands of Li Galli on Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where Odysseus was …
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Sicily
Aeolian Islands Guide: Stromboli’s Eruptions, Vulcano and the Islands of the Wind God
By Emily MacArthur 153 ViewsVisit the Aeolian Islands, home of the Odyssey’s wind-god Aeolus: Stromboli, Vulcano and Lipari, …
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Sicily
Sicily’s Cyclops Coast: Etna, Aci Trezza and the Rocks Polyphemus Threw
By Emily MacArthur 156 ViewsVisit Sicily’s Cyclops Coast: where Odysseus blinded Polyphemus, the Faraglioni dei Ciclopi at Aci …
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Turkey
Troy in Turkey: What’s Actually Left of Homer’s City, and Which Layer Was the War
By Emily MacArthur 132 ViewsVisit Troy in Turkey, where Odysseus’s journey begins: the cited history of Hisarlik, what …
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Greece
Odyssey Locations You Can Actually Visit: Mapping Homer’s Route Across the Mediterranean
By Emily MacArthur 289 ViewsFollow in Odysseus’s footsteps across the Mediterranean: where scholars place every stop of Homer’s …