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

Excavations at 'Homer's School' reveal artifacts bearing his name and a bronze statue, confirming the existence of an ancient ...

LONDON — The long-lost city of Ithaca, home of the legendary hero Odysseus in the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” is on the island of Cephalonia off the western shore of Greece, three British ...

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Scholars have been wondering for centuries exactly where Ithaca, the home of Greek hero Odysseus, was located ... which is part of Greece's Ionia Islands.

The complex also features and a well from the 8th century BC, roughly the period in which Odysseus is believed to have been king of Ithaca. The location "fits like a glove" with Homer's ...

Located 15 miles east of Nafplio, on the southeast end of the ancient healing center of Asklepios, this fourth-century B.C. monument is one of the best-preserved classical theaters in Greece.

NO ONE IN GREECE seems in a hurry to get anywhere. It took me a taxi, two long bus rides, two boats and another taxi — 11 hours in all — to get from Nafplio to my next base, Ithaca ...

Now, in their fourth and final installment, The Trip To Greece (streaming May 22), the ... retracing the steps of Homer’s hero from Troy to Ithaca. On the eve of the film’s release, we spoke ...