The long way home.

King of Ithaca · ten years home from Troy

Eighteen stops from Troy to Ithaca, in the order Odysseus tells them — the real coast, ten years off the map, and the fleet counting down to one man. Step through the voyage in order, or roam the map freely.

12 SHIPS · ~700 MEN OUT · 1 MAN HOME

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Every stop after Cape Malea is labeled with how firmly it's pinned — identified in antiquity, identified in modern times, or pure myth; identifications debated since antiquity — Eratosthenes said you'd map the route when you found the cobbler who sewed the bag of the winds (Strabo 1.2.15). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX. SOURCES