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Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithaki; Ancient Greek: Ἰθάκη, Ithákē [i.tʰá.kɛː]) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.
Ancient Ithaca, in the Ionian: Ithaca is known all over the world as the homeland and kingdom of legendary Ulysses, the great hero of the Homeric poem Odyssey. In fact, the history of the island started in the prehistoric times, although we have no significant evidence of that civilization.
The island of Ithaca met its greatest glory around 1000 BC when the kingdom of Ithaca was constituted by all the Ionian Islands and a part of the coast of Acarnania, in the mainland of Greece. The first ancient occupiers to rule the Ionians were the Mycenaeans, who have left significant traces.
Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē) was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer 's Odyssey , is a matter for debate.
During the Mycenaean period, Ithaca became the power seat for the Kephalonian state which embraced all the Ionian islands and parts of the Arkarnanian mainland. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, the Normans and Franks ruled Ithaca.
History & Culture of the Island of Ithaca. Since the ancient times the island of Ithaca has been inextricably linked to the mythical hero Odysseus and the Odyssey. Friendship and Hospitality are mentioned in the oldest known inscription written in the meter of Homeric epics poetry and found in fragments of a wine amphora (clay jar) back in the ...
In Odysseus Unbound, published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press, he argues that a peninsula on the island of Cephalonia was once a separate island—Ithaca, the kingdom of Homer’s Odysseus...
