Geoffrey Sampson: “Τhe best guess at the identity of the island of Ithaca remains: Ithaca.”
Where was Homer’s Ithaca? Odysseus’ home found at last? European literature certainly, and perhaps European history also, begin with Homer’s long epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad is about an episode during a war between the “Achaeans” – men from an area of what we now know as Greece – and Troy, a …