Odysseus's Journey in a present-day map

Meet the destinations Odysseus visited in his way home to Ithaca.

The epic voyage of Odysseus seen inside a Google Map

After the epic war held in Troy, Homer tells us the story of Ithaca's king, who travelled by sea for 10 years before reaching his homeland. (Take a sneak peek of "The Odyssey")

I've just found in the web a user-defined Google Map containing placemarks of Odysseus's probable destinations, together with a small summary of the tale involved in each place:

Note: never forget that Homer's geography of the Odyssey is somewhat inconsistent. You should take it in a mythical way rather than literal.

1- Troy: where the war between Agamemnon's Achaeans and Priam's Trojans was held (Homer's Iliad).

2- Ismaros (Ismara): After their departure from Troy, Odysseus and his companions stop at Ismaros. They sack the town, situated on an island, and then engage in a fierce battle with the Cicones, the inhabitants of the adjacent region. They kill the men and divide the women and treasures among themselves and after that start to feast, although Odysseus proposes to leave. The Cicones, who in the meantime go for help, come back in the morning in great quantities. Odysseus manages to escape after heavy losses and embarks with the survivors to continue towards his homeland, Ithaca, but shortly after sailing they are caught in a northerly storm.

3- The Land Of The Lotus Eaters (Modern day Djurba, Tunisia): "(...) on the tenth day we reached the land of the Lotus-eaters, who live on a food that comes from a kind of flower. Here we landed to take in fresh water, and our crews got their mid-day meal on the shore near the ships. When they had eaten and drunk (...) went about among the Lotus-Eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back (...).

4- Land Of The Cyclopes (SE Sicily)

5- Island of Aeolia (isle at N Sicily): Odysseus flees here after the ravaging of his men by Polyphemus, and their subsequent escape from the land of the Cyclopes. Aelouss, son of Hippotas, gives Odysseus a bag of winds to head home with, and the journey goes well until his men open the bag and are cast back into the waters of the Mediterranean.

6- Ithaca: he actually never reached at this point.

7- Return to Aeolia

8- Telepylos: the mythological city of the Laestrygonians. When Odysseus reached the city in the Odyssey, he sent three scouts to explore the island. They came across the King, a giant cannibal, who then ate one of the men, causing the other scouts to run away. Most of Odysseus' men are killed in the incident, but his boat is moored outside the Laestrygonians' harbour. He is able to sail away, without the bombardment of rocks received by the rest of the fleet who did moor within the harbour. Only fifty-two men escaped.

9- Aeaea: the land of the sorceress Circe, who detained Odysseus and turned his men into swine.

10- The underworld: the Acheron River.

11- Return to Aeaea

12- Anthemoessa: the land of the sirens. All locations were surrounded by cliffs and rocks. Sailors who sailed near were compelled by the Sirens' enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast.

13- Strait of Messina: were the 2 monsters were waiting for Odyssey. Scylla and Charybdis

14- Land Of Hyperion: one of the 12 Titan Gods; related to the Sun.

15- Ithaca: homeland.