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Where is Ithica?
August 28, 2024
Homer calls Odysseus “King of the Ithacans.” But there are no Mycenaean ruins on modern-day Ithaki. Why? At other places Homer writes about in the Iliad and the Odyssey, like Mycenae and Pylos, archeologists have found the remains of powerful cities. More than 150 years of excavations on the island of Ithaki have yielded nothing. Perhaps that’s because they were looking in the wrong place.
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Odysseus Returns
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An ancient tomb might prove that the hero of Homer’s Odyssey Odyssey really existed.
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Finding the Seal
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The 1992 excavation of the tomb Makis Metaxas found gives up an incredible piece of evidence....
Ismini Describes Excavation
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Ismini Milliaresis describes the archeological dig that took place on her family's land on...
Makis Finds the Tomb
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Makis Metaxas believes Odysseus' kingdom was in his hometown on the island of Kefalonia.
Discovery of a Tomb
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In 1992, the discovery of a tomb leads to claims that the body buried there is King Odysseus....
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