Image Gallery

• Images of Ancient Troy
• Troy then and now
• Agamemnon's Mycenae, then and now
• More images of Mycenae -- Lion's Gate
• Spartan countryside, Lacedaemon, ruins, more ruins.
• Nestor's Pylos: archaeological site; see reconstruction (right>>)
• Animated tour of Nestor's Palace
• What did Odysseus' ship look like?
  • drawing of a Greek Bireme
  • model Bireme
  • images of a more detailed model
• Maps:
  • The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age
  • Bronze Age Greece
  • The region around Troy
  • Troy and the Trojan Plain
  • What Homer thought the world looked like
  • Hypothetical map of Odysseus' journey
  • Map of Ithaka and Kephalonia
• Sattelite view of Ithaka and neighboring island Kephalonia
• Compare Greek Aphrodite with Roman Venus

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• Vase paintings
• Images of modern day Ithaka
• Trace Odysseus' journey on a Homeric map
• Where was the real island of Ithaka?

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