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Ithaca (island)

Ithaca, Ithaki or Ithaka (/ˈɪθəkə/; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithaki [iˈθaci]; Ancient Greek: Ἰθάκη, Ithakē [i.tʰá.kɛː]) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.

For the mythical island, see Homer's Ithaca.

Native name:
Ιθάκη

38°22′N 20°43′E / 38.367°N 20.717°E / 38.367; 20.717

Ionian Islands

117.8 km2 (45.5 sq mi)

Ionian Islands

Ithaca

Vathy

2,862 (2021)

24/km2 (62/sq mi)

www.ithaki.gr

Ithaca's main island has an area of 96 square kilometres (37 sq mi) and in 2021 had a population of 2,862. It is the second-smallest of the seven main Ionian Islands, after Paxi. Ithaca is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. The capital is Vathy (or Vathi).[1][2]


Modern Ithaca is generally identified with Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, whose delayed return to the island is the plot of the epic poem Odyssey.

Val di Compare (Valley of the Bestman), Piccola (Small) Cephallonia, Anticephallonia (Middle Ages until the beginning of the Venetian period)

Ithaki nisos (Greek for island), Thrakoniso, Thakou, Thiakou (Byzantine period)

Thiaki (Byzantine and before the Venetian period)

Teaki (Venetian period)

Fiaki (Ottoman period)

Although the name Ithaca or Ithaka has remained unchanged since ancient times, written documents of different periods also refer to the island by other names, such as:

(13th century BC), legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey

Odysseus

(1786–1868), Athonite monk and an Orthodox Saint

St. Joachim Papoulakis

(1792-1819) pre-revolutionary figure and member of the Filiki Eteria

Nikolaos Galatis

(1788–1825), fighter in the Greek War of Independence

Odysseas Androutsos

(1849-1892), composer

Dionysius Rodotheatos

(1858–1934), philosopher, writer, politician

Platon Drakoulis

(1860–1912), poet

Lorentzos Mavilis

(1871–1941), general and dictator of Greece. His family descended from Cephalonia.

Ioannis Metaxas

(1911–1970), writer, journalist

Panagis Lekatsas

Evgenios Karavias (1752 - 1821) Eminent cleric, Scholar, Metropolitan Bishop of Anchialos, National Martyr and Saint

Vasilios Karavias (1733 - 1830) Militaryman, one of the pioneers of the Greek revolution in Moldo-Wallachia in 1821

Karavias Ippokrates (1866 - 1954) Lawyer, journalist and writer. President of Parnassos Philological Association

Karavias Dimitrios (Misolitros) Fighter of the 1821 Greek Revolution against the Ottomans in Western Greece

List of traditional Greek place names

Brown, Jonathan. In search of Homeric Ithaca, Canberra, Parrot Press, 2020.

Dervenn, Claude. Iles de Grèce d'Ithaque à Samothrace, Paris, Impr. auxiliaire; J. de Gigord. (S.M.), 1939. (in French)

Hetherington, Paul. The Greek Islands: Guide to the Byzantine and Medieval Buildings and their Art, Londres, 2001.

Le Noan, Gilles. À la recherche d'Ithaque: essai sur la localisation de la patrie d'Ulysse, Quincy-sous-Sénart, Éd. Tremen, 2001. (in French)

Schliemann, Henry. Ithaque, le Péloponnèse, Troie: recherches archéologiques, Paris, C. Reinwald, 1869. (in French)

Tzakos, Christos I. . Translator: Geoffrey Cox. Archived from the original on 2007-05-16.

Ithaca and Homer, The Truth: The Advocacy of the Case

(Greek)

Official website

Town and Harbour of Ithaca. an engraving by J Tingle of a painting by Charles Bentley for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon that accepts Ithaca as the home of Ulysses: 'The glorious island⁠ where Ulysses was the king'.