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Can we map The Odyssey? How ancient geographers and modern researchers have traced Odysseus’s travels

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par Pragya Agarwal, Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University

Homer’s Odyssey is a quest, following King Odysseus’s ten-year journey back home to Ithaca after the Trojan war. It is a tale with distinct geographic, spatial and temporal dimensions. It is no wonder that for centuries, people have been intrigued by the places mentioned in the Odyssey, wondering how many of them were real.

A few historians and classical scholars argue that the Odyssey is only poetry. As a work of art…

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