It is no coincidence that Homer chose Ithaca as the island of the ingenious Odysseus. Beautiful, impressive, special, admirable, calm, but above all unique. Thus, returning to it is a recurring wish. Marinos Charalampopoulos takes us on a bird's-eye tour

British news site “Telegraph” published an article titled “Greece begins a new economic odyssey after a decade lost at sea”, disputing Greek PM Alexis Tsipras’s narrative who declared from Ithaca, Odysseus’s home that the embattled country was exiting the economic crisis, claiming Greece had in fact not been liberated but would remain shackled by its creditors and markets for decades to come.

"The Prime Minister has assured us that the excavations at the Palace of Odysseus will resume," the mayor of Ithaca, Dionysis Stanitsas, said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.