Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.A 19th-century painting by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin depicting Odysseus fleeing the Cyclops Polyphemus.