[
US
/ˈɪθəkə/
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NOUN
- a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
- a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga
How To Use Ithaca In A Sentence
- The original Ulysses may have been Ithacan, but this one is more of a Spartan in temperament. Big Questions and Little Trinkets
- a final leave of great Circe; who by her art calmed the heavens, and gave them smooth seas, and a right forewind (the seaman's friend) to bear them on their way to Ithaca. The Adventures of Ulysses
- As in Homer, after further tribulation, he will eventually reach Ithaca, kill Penelope's suitors, and live with wife and son until a peaceful death in old age.
- The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
- She advises that when he gets to Ithaca he should stay one night with the swineherd.
- I've bought a couple of Ithaca M-37s but haven't figured out the rifle solution for the "leftward" son. Revenge of the Southpaws
- It was an Ithaca M37 pump-action shotgun, chambered in the 12 gauge.
- Bidding farewell to Ithaca and all that he held dear, he sailed away.
- With spare language taken principally from the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, and with intricate pencil and watercolor illustrations, Mr. Hinds re-creates Odysseus 'turbulent voyage across "the wine-dark sea" from the ruins of Troy to the island of Ithaca and his long-suffering wife, Penelope. Highbrow
- Currently on view at State of the Art is a show featuring the work of artists who live along the Ithaca Art Trail, a collection of 47 artist studios located in the area.
