For schoolchildren, Homer's Odyssey is a vivid tale of storms, shipwrecks and sea monsters, but for those who have actually seen war it remains the classic tale of a homecoming gone wrong. For 10 long ...

Seven years after the end of the war, when the rest of the kings of Greece had already returned, or their deaths had been confirmed, a number of suitors arrived at Odysseus’ home to try to force a ...

A new archeological project has uncovered artifacts that have helped identify the location of a centuries-old “hero-cult site” devoted to Odysseus, the famous Ithacan of Homer's Odyssey. The site, ...