The Odyssey Mind Mapping Project Assignment.pdf. The Odyssey / Invitation to World Literature. Cruising the Mediterranean: A Modern Odyssey. In the end, we never got to Ithaca—never followed “in the wake of Odysseus,” as the brochure for the cruise had promised; at least, not all the way to this most famous of literary destinations, Ithaca (Itháki in modern Greek), the small and rocky island of which Homer sings, and where Odysseus had his famously gratifying homecoming.
We saw much that he had seen: Troy, where his war ended and his wanderings began; Malta, where he was imprisoned by the nymph Calypso for seven years; Sicily, where his sailors were devoured by Scylla; the Neapolitan coast, which the ancients believed was close to the entrance to the underworld. But Ithaca turned out to be unattainable. For the hero of legend, that island was the culminating adventure; for us, on our Mediterranean cruise, there were just the inconveniences of modern politics—in this case, a strike that forced us to make a mad nighttime dash for Athens to catch our flights home.
But I wanted him to have more than just a pleasant vacation. Odyssey_game_shot_3.jpg (JPEG Image, 640 × 480 pixels) Greek Mythology: Odysseus. The Odyssey by Homer.