Lefkada
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The myth about Sappho's suicide at Cape Lefkada is related to other
myths linking the island to the ancient Greek goddess of love,
Aphrodite, and to Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey.
The German archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld, having performed excavations
at various locations of Lefkada, was able to obtain funding to do work
on the island by suggesting that Lefkada was Homer's Ithaca, and the
palace of Odysseus was located west of Nydri on the south coast of
Lefkada.
There have been suggestions by local tourism officials that several
passages in the Odyssey point to Lefkada as a possible model for Homeric
Ithaca. The most notable of these passages pushed by the local tourism
board describes Ithaca as an island reachable on foot, which was the
case for Lefkada since it is not really an island, that it was connected
to the mainland by a narrow causeway.
According to Strabo, the coast of Acarnania was called Leucas in earlier
times. The ancient sources call Leucas a Corinthian colony, perhaps with
a Corcyraen participation. During the Peloponnesian War Leucas had
joined the Spartan Confederation.
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