Ithaca

But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca;

Still, now that Odysseus is dead there are many great men in Ithaca both old and young, and some other may take the lead among them;

for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying their court to my mother, who will neither point blank say that she will not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end;

Nor does he feast the suitors on fish, exceedingly wanton and luxurious as they were, and that though they were feasting in Ithaca.

but nonetheless the citizen of Ithaca sacked it, the man of the small and obscure isle the city that was very spacious.

Odysseus led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands.

He was born in the district [ dêmos] of rugged Ithaca, and excels in all manner of stratagems and subtle cunning.

" But the rest, grown fast to the world like seaweed on sea-girt rocks, make light of immortality, like the old man of Ithaca, longing not for the truth and the heavenly fatherland, and besides for the light that truly is, but for the smoke.

Odysseus of Ithaca, king of the Cephallenians’ land.

And now will I get me to the beach and start my hollow ship across the sea of Sicily to the land of my fathers.

Odysseus, king of Ithaca, has taken you to be his slave.

And in this manner he has carried in nearly all the rest of his narration about affairs in Ilion, all that happened in Ithaca, and the entire Odyssey.

Ulysses hastens to the rocks of his Ithaca as Agamemnon to the noble walls of Mycenae.