Recreating Part of Odysseus’ Journey in a Modern Sailing Boat It took 10 years for Odysseus to sail across the stormy Mediterranean, from Ithaca to Troy. Historian Bettany Hughes recreates part ...

While the tales of Odysseus are enjoying their moment at present, the tales of Sinbad actually reveal a more attractive and ...

Its best parts are not about sailing, or our hero’s grim and goofy goings-on with man-eating monsters and sirens, but involve prewar politics in Ithaca, and Odysseus’ tricky homecoming.

“On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her husband Odysseus.” The camera then cuts to the wreckage of a ship and the body of a man washed up on the beach ...

Following in the footsteps of Odysseus, the island community of Ithaca have faced a long and treacherous journey to make amends with their environment. In 2012 an industrial scale fish farm went ...

Greek hero and the King of Ithaca, was desperate to return home to his wife, Penelope, and their son Telemachus, who he had not seen for ten long years. Odysseus and his fleet of ships set sail.

The first is, of course, Odysseus the King of Ithaca who travels to Troy in order ... and the Cyclops Polyphemus after ...

Meanwhile, back in Ithaca, Odysseus's wife Penelope has spent ten ... beeswax and ties himself to the mast of his ship when they sail past them. Scylla: Scylla is a six-headed monster who eats ...

The physical manifestation of Athena, who serves as Odysseus’s divine protector throughout his ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, offers the clearest look yet at the ...