Ithaca
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Greek Itháki. one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
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a city in S New York at the S end of Cayuga Lake.
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The big screen adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic poem stars Matt Damon, as the hero Odysseus, King of Ithaca, who is heading home from the Trojan War to rescue his wife and son.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
He was previously a fellow at the New York Times and he began his journalism career as a multimedia reporter for the Ithaca Voice.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Yin is also organizing a symposium on the Ithaca campus scheduled for March 3-5, 2026.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
Jeff Cohen is co-founder of RootsAction.org, a retired journalism professor at Ithaca College and author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.”
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2025
On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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