Ithaca

she grasped the redoubtable bronze-shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, whereon forthwith she was in the dêmos of Ithaca, at the gateway of Odysseus' house, disguised as a visitor, Mentes, chief of the Taphians, and she held a bronze spear in her hand.

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;

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.

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 of Ithaca, king of the Cephallenians’ land.

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.