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Destinations: The Long Voyage Home

A Washington D.C. attorney follows in the footsteps of Odysseus

By Daniel A. Rezneck

A brochure in the day’s pile of junk mail offered an irresistible opportunity: a Mediterranean cruise following Odysseus’s path (more or less) home from Troy. My wife and I took the bait. Aboard the Clelia II, we sailed around a Mediterranean world that juxtaposes past and present, history and legend, and particular and universal like no other place on earth. Day 1, Troy From Istanbul the Clelia II made for Homer’s Troy on the northwestern coast of Anatolia. I grew up in the small upstate New York city of Troy, so ancient Troy has always fascinated me. Homeric and […]

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Footnotes

1.

See David A. Traill, “Priam’s Treasure,” AO 02:03.

2.

See Birgit Brandau, “Can Archaeology Discover Homer’s Troy?” AO 01:01.