An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

On the Greek island of Ithaca, archaeologists recently uncovered new evidence that suggests ancient travelers once made real-life pilgrimages to the supposed home of Odysseus, Homer ’s famous wanderer ...

Excavations conducted by the University of Ioannina at the archaeological site of Agios Athanasios, known as "Homer's School," in northern Ithaca revealed artifacts bearing Odysseus's name and a ...

For millennia, the epic poems of Homer have profoundly shaped Western literature and thought with their timeless tales of ...

According to Greek mythology, Poseidon, the god of the sea, was Polyphemus’ father. Because Odysseus managed to escape Polyphemus, Poseidon kept interfering with his voyage, preventing him from ...

“Heroes, Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece” at the Onassis Cultural Center offers a down-to-earth look at figures like Odysseus, Achilles, Hercules and Helen.

Polyphemus was the son of the god Poseidon, and one of the race of cyclopes, giant one-eyed shepherds who inhabited an island later identified as Sicily. When Odysseus (Ulysses) and twelve of his men ...

The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.