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Ithaca

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Ith·a·ca  (th-k)
1. A city of southwest-central New York on Cayuga Lake south-southwest of Syracuse. It is the seat of Cornell University (chartered 1865). Population: 29,800.
2. See Itháki.
Ithaca [ˈɪθəkə]
n
(Placename) a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the smallest of the Ionian Islands: regarded as the home of Homer's Odysseus. Area: 93 sq. km (36 sq. miles) Modern Greek name Itháki [iˈθaki]
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Noun1.Ithaca - a college town in central New York on Lake CayugaIthaca - a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
2.Ithaca - a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
Ithaki
Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
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If these men were to see my father come back to Ithaca they would pray for longer legs rather than a longer purse, for money would not serve them; but he, alas, has fallen on an ill fate, and even when people do sometimes say that he is coming, we no longer heed them; we shall never see him again.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
But the "Odyssey" itself left much untold: what, for example, happened in Ithaca after the slaying of the suitors, and what was the ultimate fate of Odysseus?
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Take even the irrational incidents in the Odyssey, where Odysseus is left upon the shore of Ithaca.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
 
 
 
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