The Voyage of Odysseus — interactive map of the Odyssey

15 landfalls · Troy → Ithaca · ten years at sea. Every landfall of the voyage, told scene by scene with Homeric quotes, on the mythic map of the Homeric Mediterranean.

  1. The Fall of Troy — Troy (Ilios) (Book Departure (post-Iliad)): The fall of Troy and the voyage home begins
  2. The Cicones — Ismaros (the Cicones) (Book IX): Raid on the Cicones; first losses
  3. The Storm at Malea — Cape Malea (Book IX): The great storm — blown off the known world
  4. The Lotus-Eaters — Land of the Lotus-Eaters (Book IX): The Lotus-Eaters and the lure of forgetting
  5. Polyphemus the Cyclops — Land of the Cyclopes (Book IX): Polyphemus the Cyclops and the blinding
  6. The Bag of the Winds — Aeolia (Island of Aeolus) (Book X): Aeolus and the bag of the winds
  7. The Laestrygonians — Telepylus (the Laestrygonians) (Book X): The cannibal giants destroy eleven ships
  8. Circe the Enchantress — Aeaea (Circe's Island) (Book X): Circe the enchantress; the men turned to swine
  9. The House of the Dead — The Underworld (Nekyia) (Book XI): Descent to the House of Hades; the prophecy of Tiresias
  10. The Song of the Sirens — The Sirens (Book XII): The song of the Sirens
  11. Scylla and Charybdis — Scylla and Charybdis (Book XII): Between the monster and the whirlpool
  12. The Cattle of the Sun — Thrinacia (Island of the Sun) (Book XII): The forbidden cattle of Helios
  13. Calypso's Island — Ogygia (Calypso's Island) (Book V (and VII)): Seven years with Calypso at the navel of the sea
  14. The Phaeacians — Scheria (the Phaeacians) (Book VI–XIII): Nausicaa and the court of Alcinous
  15. The Homecoming — Ithaca (Home) (Book XIII–XXIV): The homecoming and the reckoning with the suitors