Second, the words " farthest out to sea, towards the sunset " () are usually interpreted to mean that Ithaca must be the island furthest to the west, but Kefalonia lies to the west of Ithaca.

Ithaca lies farther north than Kefalonia, Zacynthos, and the island that Strabo identified as Doulichion, consistent with the interpretation of Ithaca as being " farthest of all towards the north.

Newfield Hamlet lies near the center of the town of Newfield and is located southwest of Ithaca.

Another smaller outcrop known as the Portage Escarpment lies about 35 miles to the south, running along the southern ends of the Finger Lakes and forming Cascadilla, Ithaca and Buttermilk Falls in Ithaca.

It is approximately concentric with Odysseus impact crater — a pole of Ithaca Chasma lies only approximately 20 ° from it.

An alternative hypothesis is that it was formed at the same time as the large crater Odysseus which lies near a pole of the Ithaca Chasma.

The Ionian Sea lies to the east with the Strait of Ithaca.

The college began looking for a new home at the same time that Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca.

Ontario County is in western New York State, east of Buffalo, southeast of Rochester, and northwest of Ithaca.

Onondaga County is in the west central portion of New York State, west of Utica, east of Rochester and north of Ithaca.

The municipality, unchanged at the Kallikratis reform, includes islets other than Ithaca including two near Cape Melissa, Arkoudi and Atokos to the northeast and the numerous islets in the Echinades Island group ( the larger ones being Drakonera, Makri, Oxeia, Petalas, and Vromonas ) to the east near the mainland of Aetolia-Acarnania.

East Ithaca is near the south end of Cayuga Lake, just east of the City of Ithaca.

The Village of Freeville is in the Town of Dryden and is east of Ithaca.

The Village of Dryden is in the Town of Dryden and is east of Ithaca.

It also extended north to Ionia and Stanton before turning east through Ithaca to St. Charles.

Within Ithaca, NY 13 was routed on Spencer Road and Cayuga Street to Court Street, where NY 13 turned east and followed Court Street and University Avenue out of the city.

* The city of Ithaca is at the northwest corner of the township, but is administratively autonomous.

The Town of Covert is located in the southeast corner of the county and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The Village of Interlaken is in the northern part of the Town of Covert and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The Town of Romulus is in the central part of the county, northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The Village of Trumansburg is within the Town of Ulysses and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The Town of Ulysses is northwest of the city of Ithaca and is in the northwest part of Tompkins County.

The Village of Lodi is in the north part of the Town of Lodi and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The Town of Lodi is in the southwest part of the county and is northwest of Ithaca, New York.

The park is northwest of Ithaca near Trumansburg, New York.

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (" The Johnson Museum ") is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

By 1926, what is now NY 34 from Ithaca north to Cato was designated as part of NY 40, which continued northwest to Red Creek mostly by way of modern NY 370.

He disembarks on the coast of Ithaca and makes for Eumaeus ’ s hut.

The German archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld, having performed excavations at various locations of Lefkada, was able to obtain funding to do work on the island by suggesting that Lefkada was Homer's Ithaca, and the palace of Odysseus was located west of Nidri on the south coast of Lefkada.

Dörpfeld died on 25 April 1940 on the island of Lefkada, Greece, where he had a house, believing that the bay of Nidri on the eastern coast of Lefkada was the historical Ithaca, home of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.

He proposed that the bay of Nidri, on the eastern coast of Lefkada, was Ithaca, home of Odysseus.

They are collectively referred to as the Ionian Islands, the major ones being Corfu, Zakynthos, Kephalonia, Ithaca, and Lefkada.

Since on 5 November 1815 the United States of the Ionian Islands became a federal republic of seven islands ( Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo and Paxos ), as a protectorate ( nominally of the allied Powers ; de facto UK protectorate ; the highest office was the always-British Lord High Commissioner ), until its 1 June 1864 incorporation into independent Greece, there were British Residents, each posted with a local Prefect, on seven individual islands, notably: Cephalonia ( Kephalonia ), Cerigo ( Kythira ), Ithaca, Paxos, Santa Maura ( Leucada / Lefkada ) and Zante ( Zakynthos )

At about this time he changed his name, drawing " Gavin " from a cerebral palsy victim in a TV drama, and " MacLeod " from his Ithaca drama coach, Beatrice MacLeod.

David Traill wrote that the examiners gave him his PhD on the basis of his topographical analysis of Ithaca, which were in part simply translations of another author's work or drawn from poetic descriptions by the same author.

In 1996, Glover was running the Ithaca Hours system from his home, and the system had an advisory board and a governing board called the " Barter Potluck ".

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

He also disguises himself as a beggar when he returns to Ithaca to protect himself from being killed by the Suitors.

Aeneas and his crew land on the island, when they are approached by a desperate Greek man from Ithaca, Achaemenides, who was stranded on the island a few years previously with Odysseus ' expedition ( as depicted in The Odyssey ).

The fact that classical Greek authors often used eponymous explanations to explain away names through folk etymology makes it more likely that Ithakos derives from Ithaca rather than vice versa.

Although there is no definite numerical information until the Venetian period, it is believed that from the Mycenaean to the Byzantine period, the number of inhabitants was several thousand, who lived mainly in the northern part of Ithaca.

The island has been known as Ithaca from an early date, as coins and inscriptions show.

Coins from Ithaca frequently portray Odysseus, and an inscription from the 3rd century BC refers to a local hero-shrine of Odysseus and games called the Odysseia.

Led 12 ships from Ithaca to Troy.

* Ebeling, Florian, The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from ancient to modern times from the German by David Lorton ( Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 2007 ), ISBN 978-0-8014-4546-0.

At the outset of Telemachus ' journey, Odysseus has been absent from his home at Ithaca for twenty years due to the Trojan War and the intervention of Poseidon.

After the gods in council had determined that Odysseus should return home from the island of Ogygia, Athena, assuming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Taphians, went to Ithaca, and advised Telemachus to eject the troublesome suitors of his mother from his house, and to go to Pylos and Sparta, to gather information concerning his father.

One account states that Odysseus, in consequence of a prophecy that his son was dangerous to him, sent him away from Ithaca.

The Oracle replied that Homer came from Ithaca and that Telemachus was his father by Epicasta, daughter of Nestor.

When Telegonus grew up, Circe sent him to find Odysseus, who by this time had finally returned to Ithaca from the Trojan War.

Regardless of the cause of the wound, Philoctetes was exiled by the Greeks and was angry at the treatment he received from Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who had advised the Atreidae to strand him.

* Promachus, one of the suitors of Penelope, from Ithaca.