Sixteen stops · Ten years
Travel with Odysseus
Sixteen stops across the Mediterranean
Ten years of war, ten years coming home, and the gods are angry. Follow the man of many ways, Odysseus, across the wine dark sea, one stop at a time, as he tries to get his men home safely to Ithaca. Click on the map and explore what each encounter might ask of leaders today.
The story begins at home, with Telemachus, a young man left to cope while the suitors eat him out of house and home. He is mentored, goes on a quest, and returns able to speak with power. This happens in the first four books of Homer’s Odyssey: beginning in Ithaca.
Two threads run through their journey: xenia (kindness to strangers) and kleos (courage and glory).
