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Journey of Odysseus: Retracing The Odyssey Through the Ancient Mediterranean
“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns / driven time and again off course, once he had plundered / the hallowed heights of Troy.” Homer’s epic is the definitive sea saga, reiterated and re-interpreted in every conceivable way, from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to Joyce’s Ulysses to O Brother, Where Art Thou? Its theme of returning home, as spouse, as hero, after the defeat of monsters, is just as contemporary as it is ancient. Sail to the Mediterranean realms Homer used as a map of the Greek mind: from the crucible of Troy to the Palace of Nestor, where Telemachus sought word of his father; Malta, the seductive isle of Calypso; Sicily of the Laestrygonians; the Phlegrean Fields of the Cyclops; Taormina, home to the Oxen of the Sun; and finally, Ithaca: home to Penelope, and the marriage bed that grows from the ancestral tree.
Itinerary
August 31 • USA
September 1 • ISTANBUL, TURKEY | EMBARK
September 2 • CANAKKALE | TROY: PRIAM’S KINGDOM | CANAKKALE
September 3 • DELOS, GREECE
September 4 • PYLOS
September 5 • AT SEA | VALLETTA, MALTA: CALYPSO’S ISLAND
September 6 • VALLETTA
September 7 • TRAPANI, SICILY, ITALY:LAND OF THE LAESTRYGONIANS
September 8 • NAPLES: LAND OF THE CYCLOPSOR POMPEII
September 9 • MESSINA | TAORMINA: THE KINGDOM OF HELIOS |
MESSINA, SICILY
September 10 • ITHACA, GREECE: THE HOME OF ODYSSEUS |CORINTH CANAL
September 11 • PIRAEUS | DISEMBARK | ATHENS | USA