Geography of the Odyssey
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The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionia
The Ambracian Gulf and the island of Levkas (foreground, centre), around which Severin suggested locations for the Sirens, the Wandering Rocks, Scylla, Charybdis and the island of Helios's cattle
Scheria
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Scheria or Scherie, also known as Phaeacia, is a place in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey
Geography of the Odyssey
…Unbound, has identified the Paliki peninsula on Cephalonia with Homeric Ithaca. The geography of the Apologoi (the tale that Odysseus told to the Phaeacians, forming books 9–12 of the Odyssey), and the location of the Phaeacians' own island of Scheria, pose quite different problems from those encountered…
Pieter Lastman's Odysseus and Nausicaa, oil on panel, 1619; Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
Francesco Hayez: Odysseus at the court of Alcinous (oil on canvas, c. 1815; Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples)
Claude Lorrain: Port Scene with the Departure of Odysseus from the Land of the Phaeacians (oil on canvas, 1646; Louvre, Paris)