ITHACA.
Odysseus is finally home in Ithaca after being at sea for 20 years. Present day Ithaca does not exactly parallel with the one described in the Odyssey. For example, it is described to be very flat land in the epic, where in real life Ithaca is very mountainous. Also in the epic, it is said to be one of the islands furthest out to sea and "towards the sunset" meaning it would be the most Western when realistically, there is a whole separate island that is out that far.
QUOTES.
"It's bed you'll have, whenever the spirit moves you, now that the gods have brought you home again to native land, your grand gracious house." (Book 23 92-94)
"But now I must be off to the upland farm, our orchard green with trees, to see my father, good man weighed with so much grief for me." (Book 23 406-409)
