In 2008, scientists Marcelo O. Magnasco and Constantino Baikouzis at Rockefeller University used clues in the text and astronomical data to attempt to pinpoint the time of Odysseus's return from his journey after the Trojan War.

There is a strong theme of homecoming ( nostos ) in the Odyssey, because Odysseus is on a journey home after the Trojan war has finally ended.

In Homer's Odyssey ( Book 9 ), Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes during his journey home from the Trojan War.

In the Odyssey, Menelaus relates to Telemachus that he had been becalmed here on his journey home from the Trojan War.

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.

When the city was destroyed by the Achaeans at the end of the Trojan War, a group of Trojans were said to have escaped and, after a long journey across the Mediterranean Sea, landed in Sicily.

For instance, in mythology, it was Odysseus ' fate to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, and the gods could only lengthen his journey and make it harder for him, but they could not stop him.

She married Demophon, King of Athens and son of Theseus, while he stopped in Thrace on his journey home from the Trojan War.

The Odyssey is a nostos that recalls the story of Odysseus ' journey home to Ithaca, finally completed twenty years after the Trojan War.

After his long journey home from the Trojan Wars Ulisse, king of Ithaca, finally returns to his kingdom where he finds that a trio of villainous suitors have seized the realm and are importuning his faithful queen, Penelope.

Specifics of their behaviour were documented extensively by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ( a survivor of Robert Falcon Scott ’ s fateful final journey to the South Pole ) in his book The Worst Journey in the World.

Hnida travels around the country to share her athletic story and her journey as a survivor of sexual assault.

The only survivor to complete the journey was Jackey Jackey, an aborigine from New South Wales.

A 1984 film, The Killing Fields, tells the story of Dith Pran, played by another Cambodian survivor Haing S. Ngor, and his journey to escape the death camps.

Juan is the sole survivor of the journey ; he eventually makes it onto land at Cyclades in the Aegean.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

The journey through the ice and snow left Aeneas afflicted with pain in his legs for the rest of his life.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

The Aeneids first six books describe the journey of Aeneas from Troy to Rome.

The Aeneid was seen as reflecting this aim, by depicting the heroic Aeneas as a man devoted and loyal to his country and its prominence, rather than personal gains, and going off on a journey for the betterment of Rome.

Although not mentioned in Homer's Epic, Achaemenides is significant ; his stranding and subsequent rescue by Aeneas ' fleet make him the only known member of Odysseus ' crew to survive the return journey to Ithaca ( as every ship besides the flagship was destroyed by the Laestrygonian giants, and those besides Odysseus on the last ship were drowned after his men devoured Helios ' sacred cattle ).

In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

Following a path around the lake is meant to evoke a journey similar to that of Aeneas ’ s descent in to the underworld.

Passages telling of Aeneas ’ s journey are quoted in the temples surrounding the lake.

A sequel, Force of the Trojans, detailing Aeneas ' mythological journey after the fall of Troy, was proposed to MGM in 1984, but never produced.

The college's official motto, appearing on the college crest, is a quotation from the Aeneid ( I, 203 ), when Aeneas seeks to comfort his men as they embark upon an arduous journey to Italy: Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Hoare dammed a stream on his estate, created a lake, and surrounded the lake with landscapes and architectural constructions representing the different steps of the journey of Aeneas in the Aeneid by Virgil.

Scrambling everything they can, the White Base sets out with her newly formed crew of civilian recruits and refugees in her journey to survive, and unknowingly, change the course of the war.

This building provided a place for refugees to heal and recuperate so they could continue their journey home while others took their place.

In 1939 he documented the journey of Loyalist Spanish refugees to Mexico and was in New York when World War II broke out.

The surviving crew and the civilian refugees then boarded the White Base and went on a long journey to plagued by Zeon hostilities.

His 2002 film In This World depicts the harrowing journey of two Afghan refugees from Pakistan, across the Middle East and Europe to Britain which they try to enter with the help of people smugglers.

The refugees were transferred to another ship, the Patria, for the journey to Mauritius.

* Hodoeporicon, diary of a journey visiting the monasteries of Italy

Their honeymoon journey to Italy sealed an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that was to remain important to Aalto for the rest of his life.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

In poor health, in 1576 he made a journey to Italy.

A journey in northern Africa ( 1841 ) was followed by a tour in Greece and Italy, in

The Diary of Travel to Italy describes his journey to Venice, Trieste, and Ljubljana ( where he met the Slovene national poet France Prešeren ) in 1834.

In 1898, Rilke undertook a journey lasting several weeks to Italy.

The previous year he and his wife made a journey on the Continent that lasted five and a half months and took them through Brussels, Germany, and Italy.

His second journey to Italy took place in 1368, when he had a meeting with Pope Urban V at Viterbo, was besieged in his palace at Siena, and left the country before the end of the year 1369.

He displayed in his youth a genuine enthusiasm for Greek and Latin ; and his father took special pains with his education, and, as a part of his general training, he undertook in his nineteenth year a protracted journey to Italy, England, and Flanders, where he busied himself in collecting and collating manuscripts for his father's press.

The new king embarked on an overland journey through Italy and France, where among other things he visited the pope in Rome and suppressed a rebellion in Gascony.

It bound the future Pope to continue the Turkish war, but he was not to journey outside Rome without the consent of a majority of the cardinals, nor to leave Italy without the consent of all.

All four non-European teams who made the journey to Italy were eliminated after one match.

Pope John Paul II visited the shrine in the course of his first journey outside Italy as Pope from 26 to 31 January 1979, and again when he beatified Juan Diego there on May 6, 1990.

She predicts his journey to Hesperia, Italy and future marriage to another.

In April – May 2006, to celebrate 500 years in the line of duty a group of veteran guards marched from Switzerland to Rome, a month long journey through Italy.

On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and Gino, a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay.

Changing his religious opinions, he abandoned theology and delivered lectures on the history of art, in which he had become interested on a journey to Italy in 1837.

A journey to Italy opened his mind to fresh ideas, and on his return to Paris in 1844 he announced his intention of becoming a painter, and went to study first under Eugène Delacroix, Henri Scheffer, and then under Thomas Couture.

Medal of Christian I of Denmark, made during his journey through Italy.

Barth had already visited Italy and Sicily ; he formed a plan to journey through the Mediterranean countries.

In 1859 Burne-Jones made his first journey to Italy.