Thai cycling around a Greek island

Usage examples of ithaca.

Ithaca, New York, doubles to a grand total of about 50,000 when Cornell University and Ithaca College are in session.

Ten months later, Ithaca had the only community-built science museum in the world.

Youth-ALIVE programme, Ithaca teenagers receive intensive mentoring to develop their science, conflict resolution and employment skills.

Odysseus of Ithaca was there with his stocky, fair-bearded compatriots from the Western Islands.

No stories belong to Ithaca, except only that it is the birthplace of Odysseus, son of Laertes.

On Ithaca Odysseus is nobody, lord of kelp-gatherers and swineherds and a few barren crags.

It is larger than Ithaca and more populous, it has fertile plains and wooded valleys and wide pastures.

In those days she used to sit here during the hours of sunlight and watch that balcony beneath for the tall, red-haired young man who had so strongly attracted her that she wove whole fantasies around him, pretending he was King Odysseus of Ithaca and she was his faithful Queen Penelope, waiting for him to come home.

Dante how after the Trojan War, as an aged soldier, he did not sail back to Ithaca to his wife and family.

Maybe, the pair of them went to visit Ulysses in Ithaca and shoot his paitricks.

Ithaca, which he doubtless regarded with wonder and disappointment, as he passed its cliffy shores, was then in the possession of the French.

Your father will be worried if we are long delayed, and he is anxious to make sail and escape before the Dyaks discover the location of the Ithaca.

The boys were to ride from Oak Run to Ithaca, and there take a small steamer which ran from that city to the head of the lake, stopping at Cedarville, the nearest village to Putnam Hall.

Peleg Snuggers, the general utility man of the Hall, had just brought the boys up from Cedarville, to which place they had journeyed from Ithaca on the regular afternoon boat running up Cayuga Lake.

And this is Gunter Weber, a German boy, and I don't know what happened in him, and this is Carlo who was as big as Kyrios Velisarios, and it's him who's buried at the old house, he was so kind and he had his own sadness that he didn't mention, and these are the boys of La Scala, singing, all drunk, and that's the olive tree before it split, and that's Kokolios and Stamatis, the funny stories I could tell you about them, old enemies, always fighting about the King and Communism, but the best of friends, and this is Alekos, he's still alive you know, older than Methuselah, still looking after his goats, and that's the Peloponnisos from the top of Mt Aenos, and that's Ithaca if you just turn round in the same place, and that's Antonio, he was the best mandolin player in the world, and I was going to marry him but he was killed, and between you and me I've never got over it, and it's his ghost that comes round the bend at the old village and then disappears .