Island

For over two thousand years, scholars, geographers, and adventurers have asked the same question: did Odysseus actually sail to real places? Homer's Odyssey places its hero's main journey across the Peloponnese and the Ionian Islands, but the fantastical stops along the way — from the cave of the Cyclops to the island of the enchantress Circe — have never been pinned to a map with any certainty. The debate between myth and geography is as alive today as it was in antiquity. The Odyssey's main sequence (except for Odysseus' travels) takes place in the Peloponnese and what is now known as the Ionian Islands (Ithaca and its neighbors). What’s more, incidental allusions to Troy and its house, Phoenicia, Egypt, and