Kefalonia

Kefalonia: the isle towards the sunset

In recent posts, Rhodes: the isle of Helios and Thera: the island of many names, we visited two Greek islands on the Aegean Sea. In this post, we will be sailing towards the sunset, to a mountainous island that was home to a famous trickster. 19 I am Odysseus son of Laertes, and I, with all [pāsi] my acts of trickery, [20] I-am-on-the-minds-of [melō] all [pāsi] humans, and my glory… Read more

Homeric Ithaca

A guest post by David Long ….The deep-sea-going ship Made landfall on the island … Ithaca at last. There on the coast a haven lies, named for Phorcys, The old god of the deep – with two jutting headlands, Sheared off at the seaward side but shelving towards the bay. Odyssey 13.95–98 (Fagles translation) Atheras Bay (Phorcys Bay) from Atheras Atheras beach This is Atheras Bay, up in the northwestern… Read more