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Modern Ithaca can be seen to the west (in turquoise) Ulysses meets his father Laertes on Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600) Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /; Greek: Ιθάκη, Ithakē) was, in Greek mythology, the island home of the hero Odysseus. The specific location of the island, as it was described in Homer's Odyssey, is a matter for debate ...
Ithaca (/ ˈ ɪ θ ə k ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area.
Ithaca is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. The capital is Vathy (or Vathi). [1] [2] Modern Ithaca is generally identified with Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, whose delayed return to the island is the plot of the epic poem Odyssey.
Ithaca most commonly refers to: Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's Odyssey; Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca; Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College; Ithaca, Ithaka or Ithica may also refer to:
Ithaca’s Common Council recently discussed hiring a grant writing consultant to help the city apply for New York's annual $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) award.
Tompkins County officials recently passed a resolution supporting a project that would turn an area in the City of Ithaca – at the corner of Buffalo and Tioga Streets at the County’s downtown ...
The falls at Buttermilk Falls State Park, located along Rt. 13 in the south part of the Town of Ithaca. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 30.3 square miles (78.5 km 2), of which, 29.1 square miles (75.4 km 2) of it is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2) of it (3.99%) is water.
In 2019, the city became the first to commit to carbon neutrality by 2030, in 2021 it adopted the first net-zero building code in New York State and in 2022, Ithaca made international headlines by ...