"Across that valley," he says, "lay the ancient ... was Ithaca in the second millennium b.c.,” he says. “But the poem is not reportage. We should not force it to be a road map for a set ...

On Wednesday, March 12, the Trojan War began in Ithaca with the powerful cries of Emily Wilson speaking in Ancient Greek. Yet this was no ordinary recitation of the words of one of the most iconic ...

Updated by Sonja Anderson When German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann traveled to Ithaca, Greece, in 1868, one goal was foremost in his mind: discovering the ancient city of Troy using Homer’s ...