Odysseus Wasn’t Real. But He Had Real Worshipers in Ancient Ithaca.

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion. By Franz Lidz For nearly 3,000 years, Homer’s “The Odyssey” has reigned as literature’s ultimate road trip. It’s a sweeping tale of a displaced king who fights wrathful gods and sea monsters to