The immense richness of Homer made him the teacher of the Greeks, their greatest poet and philosopher. Rhapsodes, singers of tales, sang extensive sections of the epics in sixth century BCE Athens and ...
The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the possible sanctuary of Odysseus. At a site known for over two centuries as the ...
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 ...
Excavations conducted by the University of Ioannina at the archaeological site of Agios Athanasios, known as "Homer's School," in northern Ithaca revealed artifacts bearing Odysseus's name and a small ...
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - Greeks on Friday hailed a new study showing the modern-day island of Ithaca is the same as that of Homer's legendary hero Odysseus, rejecting a recent British theory that ...
It took 10 years for Odysseus to sail across the stormy Mediterranean, from Ithaca to Troy. Historian Bettany Hughes recreates part of that journey–but with the benefit of some modern maritime ...
Research associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen Somewhere between hero and hustler, family man and philanderer, king and con artist, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It took 10 years for Odysseus to sail across the stormy Mediterranean, from Ithaca to Troy. Historian Bettany Hughes recreates part of that ...
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