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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ithaca

western Greek Island, legendary home of Odysseus; the first element is perhaps Phoenician I "island;" the rest is unknown.

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Ithaca, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 168
Housing Units (2000): 58
Land area (2000): 0.230058 sq. miles (0.595848 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.230058 sq. miles (0.595848 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24285
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.160392 N, 96.539861 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68033
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Ithaca, NE
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Ithaca, NY -- U.S. city in New York
Population (2000): 29287
Housing Units (2000): 10736
Land area (2000): 5.463095 sq. miles (14.149351 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.607148 sq. miles (1.572507 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.070243 sq. miles (15.721858 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38077
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.443603 N, 76.500093 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14853
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Ithaca, NY
Ithaca
Ithaca, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 102
Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 0.030330 sq. miles (0.078555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.030330 sq. miles (0.078555 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37604
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.938274 N, 84.553396 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Ithaca, OH
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Ithaca, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 3098
Housing Units (2000): 1289
Land area (2000): 4.076685 sq. miles (10.558564 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.076685 sq. miles (10.558564 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41340
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.291051 N, 84.603113 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48847
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Ithaca

Ithaca or Ithaka (; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē ) is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and to the west of continental Greece.

Ithaca has an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is the second-smallest of seven main Ionian Islands, after Paxi. Ithaka is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. The capital, Vathy or Ithaki, has one of the world's largest natural harbours.

Modern Ithaca is generally identified with Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, whose delayed return to the island is the Odyssey's plot.

Ithaca (disambiguation)

Ithaca is an island in Greece.

Ithaca, Ithaka or Ithica may also refer to:

  • Ithaka Harbors, publisher of academic journals in JSTOR
  • Homer's Ithaca, Ithaca as featured in Homer's Odyssey
  • 1151 Ithaka, an asteroid
  • Ithaca Chasma, a valley on Saturn's moon Tethys
  • Ithaca College, a liberal arts college
  • Ithaca Gun Company, a US shotgun and rifle manufacturer
  • Ithaca 37, a shotgun
  • Ithaca (ship), a shipwreck near the port of Churchill, Manitoba, in Hudson's Bay
Ithaca (album)

Ithaca is the fifth studio album by American singer/song-writer Paula Cole. It had an international release on 21 September 2010 on Decca Records. It was tracked between February until the end of April 2010.

It is the first album entirely written by Cole (apart from "Somethin' I've Gotta Say" which was co written with Kevin Barry) since 1999's Amen. The album was produced by Paula Cole and Chris Roberts. Kevin Killen (who produced Cole's debut record Harbinger) co produced.

“The overall theme of Ithaca is the return to home and making peace with it,” Cole says. “It’s about accepting that I actually want to be with a man who is a lot like my father and that I am a lot like my mother — which I’ve written about in ‘Music In Me.’ I rebelled against these classical complexes and got really beat up in the world. So I’ve come to a quiet place of acceptance in my family and my hometown. That’s why I called the album ‘Ithaca,’ which is the island Odysseus came home to in The Odyssey after 10 years of fighting and 10 years of trying to get back home. Rockport is my Ithaca, and coming home has been an Odyssean journey: enduring war and finding beautiful things in home. That’s the tone of the album, that there is both darkness and light to this story. My journey has healed me, and in that healing process I’ve been able to work again.”

Ithaca (film)

Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film directed by Meg Ryan and written by Erik Jendresen. It is based on the 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. The film stars Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Tom Hanks. The film is scheduled to be released on September 9, 2016 by Momentum Pictures.

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 .