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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New important data on the historical and cultural evolution of Ithaca has emerged from the University of Ioannina research at the archaeological site known as Homer's School since the start of the ...

Since ancient times, the location of Homer’s Ithaca has been one of literature’s great conundrums. The third-century B.C. geographer Eratosthenes sighed, “You will find the scene of the wanderings of ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of heroism, gods and the enduring human spirit. While The Iliad plunges us into ...

Why did it take Odysseus ten years to get from Troy to Ithaca, a journey which should have only taken two weeks? The Odyssey reveals why.