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For more than a century, archeologists have looked for proof that a complex in Ithaca was related to Odysseus, now they have ...
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.
Was Ithaca truly Odysseus’ home? New discoveries have revived debate on the Homeric hero due to rich archaeological and ...
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 ...
The kick-off of “The Iliad in Ithaca: Re-Reading the Trojan War” was a virtual event featuring the translator of Homer’s classic story of Achilles and Agamemnon, who answered questions ...
The Search for Ancient Ithaca ... he pored over maps and satellite images. If Paliki had once been a separate island, he mused, ... one of the Ionian islands off the western coast of 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.
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 ...
Archaeologists have made an exciting discovery after they unearthed fragments inscribed with the name Odysseus on the island of Ithaca - home to one of ancient Greece’s greatest heroes.
After a lifetime search for the perfect Greek island, I think I’ve finally found it. A dreamscape of shimmering blue seas and secret bays hidden by towering cypress trees, the island of Ithaca ...
Thus began a tale I’d been telling, and adding to, ever since I’d begun my Odyssey in Turkey outside the city of Canakkale, where ancient Troy was located and, beginning in the late 19th ...
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.