Since ancient times, the location of Homer’s Ithaca has been one of literature’s great conundrums. Modern scholars have proposed numerous locations, some as far afield as Scotland or the Baltic. The most obvious candidate was the present-day island of Ithaca, which lies east of Cephalonia, but it doesn’t fit Homer’s description.

Now a British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island of Ithaca, arguing that a peninsula on the island of Cephalonia was once a separate island.

Full story from The Smithsonian here: Odyssey's End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca