Odysseus wasn’t real. But he had real worshippers in ancient Ithaca.

photo provided by Christina Marabea, an archaeologist at Hellenic Open University in Patras, Greece, shows the interior of the built underground spring chamber at the Odysseion in Ithaca. The ruins of the sprawling, 2,400-year-old sanctuary boasts details suggesting that King Odysseus was a figure of local worship. (Christina Marabea via The New York Times) By FRANZ LIDZ For nearly 3,000 years, Homer’s “The Odyssey” has reigned as literature’s ultimate road trip. It’s a sweeping tale of a…

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