place
Ithaca
The rocky island kingdom of Ulysses, 'shut in by savage seas', which Hecuba says has no room even for her tomb.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.66.26 Ithaca
Ulysses's small, rugged island kingdom in the Ionian Sea, a byword for a humble but beloved homeland.
- Thyestes §546 Ithaca
The island kingdom of Ulysses.
- The Trojan Women §883 Ithaca
The rocky island kingdom of Ulysses, which Hecuba says has no room even for her tomb.