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Recent archaeological findings may well disprove the popular belief that Odysseus, the king of Ithaka, husband of Penelope and protagonist of Homer’s epic poem, was actually from Ithaka.
According to Gail Holst-Warhaft, the director of the Mediterranean Initiative at Cornell’s Institute for European Studies (IES), the remains of Odysseus’ palace are now being found in the area of Elios Proni, a town that lies on the adjacent island of Cephallonia.