City Alderman Joseph Murtagh and Tompkins County Historian Carol Kammen joined the community at St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Ithaca on Sunday to commemorate the 196th anniversary of ...

A beautiful, remote island with stunning landscapes is as gorgeous as Crete and Santorini but without any large number of tourists. Ithaca is a picturesque island in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland ...

Odysseus – known to the ancient Romans as Ulysses – famously took 10 years to return home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. On his journey, he was twice shipwrecked and encountered a cyclops, the ...

WHEN THE BRITISH-BORN stylist Charlotte Stockdale married Australian product designer Marc Newson in 2008, they already had a shared geographical history in the Ionian Islands. “We used to drive there ...

Apparently, Ithaca isn't really Ithaca at all - or so one theory has it. No lesser authority than Homer wrote in The Odyssey that: 'Ithaca itself lies low, furthest to sea towards dusk.' Some experts ...

If he chose, restored King George II might be grateful to Great Britain. There, during his twelve years of banishment by the Greek Republic, he was often hospitably entertained by King George & Queen ...

A scholarly Jonathan Grun is entranced by a visit to an island on which Homer set his classic Odyssey. HOMER would be rather pleased: every day at 11am a little blue bus sets off on an extraordinary ...

The group shuffles onto the boat, some masks tightly strapped on, others dangling. There’s a bit of confusion about spacing – some leave a respectful bottom-sized gap between themselves and their ...

Google says its DeepMind AI, Ithaca, can now decipher ancient Greek texts from damaged artifacts. Ithaca is said to be even better at Greek text restoration tasks than its predecessor, Pythia. Back in ...

Apparently, Ithaca isn't really Ithaca at all - or so one theory has it. No lesser authority than Homer wrote in The Odyssey that: 'Ithaca itself lies low, furthest to sea towards dusk.' Some experts ...