Dr George A. Gazis

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · The Odyssey · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And, of course, over there you have another bunch of people who spend their time and resources trying to prove that Ithaca is the real place.

Now, that's the political drama behind it, and it's very important in Greece.

Of course, people spend a lot of time on that.

But on the other hand, if you can remove yourself from this sort of nonsense, to be honest,

Then you start getting this experience while you're walking around, especially if there are ruins involved, that you're kind of stepping in the same kind of roads that Odysseus must have walked.

Of course, none of this has any scientific or scholarly merit whatsoever, but it is a testimony to the power of the story, that it is enough to know the story, to associate it with a place, and try to relive it in said place.

And this is not something that I experienced only myself, but rather something that happens to a lot of people if you look around.

This tendency of trying to identify the Odyssean haunts, as it were, trying to see in the real map where Odysseus was, what he experienced, all these magical places.

And Ithaca, bear in mind, is not one of the magical places, one of the real places.

All of these places have seen multiple attempts to be pinpointed on a map, and this is still going on today.

As I said, there's a lot of resources going into that.

So in a sense, it is inevitable to think about the Odyssey.

There's nothing that would stop you from doing that if you are from the area.

So I think it's a good starting point for sure, but it can also be very, very confusing trying to read modernity back into antiquity.

It's not my cup of tea.

I cannot really transfer these things into modernity.

I think the main reason behind it is that we're talking about a text that the sense of antiquity that it always had

has been there since the very beginning already.

Ancient audiences were listening to Homer.

As my colleagues said, sometimes they couldn't even fully understand the language because of how archaic it was.

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