Located 15 miles east of Nafplio, on the southeast end of the ancient healing center of Asklepios, this fourth-century B.C. monument is one of the best-preserved classical theaters in Greece.

For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...

Across that valley was the ancient island of Ithaca.” Bittlestone, a British management consultant by profession, believes he has solved a mystery that has bedeviled scholars for more than 2,000 ...

Homer's ancient Ithaca may not be Ithaki ARGOSTOLI, Greece, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The home of Greek king and Homeric warrior Odysseus may be a peninsula of Kefalonia, not Ithaki, as previously thought ...

MY FIRST FULL day in Greece on this trip — I’ve been visiting the country for more than 50 years — I made my way to Mycenae, the 3,300-year-old acropolis 75 miles from Athens that was the ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the Trojan Horse, outwitted the Cyclops, and resisted the deadly call of ...

Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece ...

An 8th BC century palace which Greek archaeologists claim was the home of Odysseus has been discovered in Ithaca, fuelling theories that the hero of Homer's epic poem was real.

Travel in time to Ancient Greece by visiting Ithaca SOME of us think we know Greece. However the country, and in particular its islands, are constantly surprising.

I f the idea of a holiday sounds simple, the logistics rarely are, and last summer’s break came with its own set of challenges. After 17 years as a family of four, the time had come to go away ...

What was the geography of ancient Greece? According to current knowledge ... Odysseus himself, the king of Ithaca and esteemed general in the Trojan War, is depicted invading the city of Ismarus by ...