Ithaca
Ithaca is not only an arrival point, but the final proof of return.
Mythic geography
Places
Concrete anchors for separating the poem, the landscape, archaeology and the final shape of return.
The Dardanelles
The Dardanelles give Troy a strategic position between Aegean and Anatolian worlds.
Troy
Troy is both the city of myth and a major archaeological site.
Reading depth
What this page adds
The places index keeps myth attached to ground. Troy, Ithaca and the Dardanelles are not interchangeable settings; each changes the scale of the story between war, return, geography and power.