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The Odyssey Map: 14 Stops of the Journey
2,585 nautical miles in total, about 759 sail days — and a homecoming that took ten years
The voyage Homer describes is anything but a straight line: storms fling the fleet from the Aegean to North Africa and on to the volcanic islands of the western Mediterranean. The route on this page joins the epic’s stops with the geographic identifications readers have proposed since antiquity; the distances in the game are measured on the same map — roughly 90 nautical miles per day at 9 knots.
Each of the 14 stops below has its own page: what happens in the myth, the real-world candidate for its location, and the choices that await you in the game.
The stops
- Troy — The shore where the war ended; twelve ships set out.
- Ismarus — The raid on the Cicones — first plunder, first losses.
- Land of the Lotus-Eaters — The fruit of forgetting; the first test of the will to return.
- Land of the Cyclopes — Polyphemus’s cave and the famous “Nobody” trick.
- Aeolia — The bag of winds; Ithaca glimpsed on the horizon for the first time.
- The Laestrygonians — The harbor of the giant cannibals; the fleet’s darkest day.
- Circe’s Island (Aeaea) — The sorceress who turns men into swine; a year of rest and a map onward.
- The Underworld — Down among the shades for the prophecy of Tiresias.
- The Sirens — Beeswax, rope, and the deadly song.
- Scylla and Charybdis — A narrow passage between a six-headed monster and a whirlpool.
- Thrinacia — The Cattle of the Sun — the breaking point of fate.
- Calypso’s Island (Ogygia) — Seven years of captivity and an offer of immortality.
- Phaeacia (Scheria) — Nausicaa’s shore, Alcinous’s table, the last ship home.
- Ithaca — The suitors, the bow, and a reunion twenty years in the making.
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