Where is the Ithaca described in such detail in Homers Odyssey? This sumptuous book tells the extraordinary story of the exciting recent discovery of its true location. Over a century after Schliemanns discovery of Troy, this breakthrough will revolutionise our understanding of Homers texts and of Bronze Age Greece. This book is a gem. Its reconstruction of prehistoric Ithaca has a convincingly Homeric look and feel to it. Reading the Odyssey is unlikely ever to be the same again - Gregory Nagy.