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  • proper noun Alternative form of Ithaca.

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Examples

  • Ithaka is the most amazing, colorful country when the leaves turn.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Ulysses 2009

  • Ithaka is the most amazing, colorful country when the leaves turn.

    Talking Turkey Ulysses 2009

  • The new combined enterprise will be called Ithaka and will be dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching and to reducing system-wide costs through collective action.

    DigitalKoans 2009

  • The new combined enterprise will be called Ithaka and will be dedicated to helping the academic community use digital technologies to advance scholarship and teaching and to reducing system-wide costs through collective action.

    DigitalKoans 2009

  • I was pleased to discover that reading 'Ithaka' by C.P. Cavafy doesn't evoke torrential rain, as it did when I read it at a friend's wedding years ago.

    Ampersand Duck 2009

  • So it wasn't until 2008, with her fourth year at Harvard Medical School on the horizon, that he proposed, quoting from C.P. Cavafy's poem, "Ithaka" about Odysseus and his epic journey to P.nelope: "As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery."

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

  • The kingship itself in Ithaka was considered as part of Telemachos’ patrimony: “Never may Kronion make thee king in sea-girt Ithaka, which is πατρώιον to thee by birth (γενεῇ).” (

    On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay 1906

  • And now, Ithaka reviewed by two true professionals ...

    Tidbits Ulysses 2009

  • Gage, author of North of Ithaka St Martins Press, £6.99.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • Gage, author of North of Ithaka St Martins Press, £6.99.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

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