Corfu Blog: All Posts to Corfu and Greece

The Greek Underworld held more than Hades. Meet the Keres, Erinyes, Eurynomos, Campe and Cerberus, and the ancient sources behind them.

Real places in Greece where the myths happened, from Corfu’s Mouse Island to Delphi and Knossos, with a note on what is myth, what is worship and what is archaeology.

The whole Trojan War in order, with a timeline of what happens before, during and after the Iliad, and which parts come from the lost Epic Cycle.

The Acheron, the river of the Underworld, and the ancient journey of the dead with Hermes, Charon, and the famous obol.

Medusa was a beautiful woman and a priestess of Athena. The woman who was once turned into a monster has become, for many, a symbol of resistance.

We decided to add a new resource to our site: Corfu Driving & Shopping Guide – How to Beat the Summer Gridlock

Discover how Greek mythology evolved through Bronze Age traditions, Near Eastern contact, and oral storytelling long before Homer wrote his famous epics.

Ancient Greek has influenced the English language in ways that most people do not realize. Thousands of years after the world of Homer…

Megas Choros, also locally known as “Great Dance,” is a quiet, sandy beach in the Kritika area, near Agios Georgios South in Corfu.

A largely continuous natural shoreline, including beaches with names like Megali Lakka, Ai Gordis of the South, and Kanoula.

Inside the palace of Ithaca, the suitors continue their endless feasting, believing Odysseus dead forever.

Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca, but Athena disguises him as a beggar. See how his hidden identity shapes the return home and the plan against the suitors.

At last, exhausted and barely alive, Odysseus reaches the island of the Phaeacians — the mysterious land known as Scheria.

In Ogygia island lives Calypso, the immortal nymph who rescues Odysseus from death. But rescue, in the Odyssey, does not always mean freedom.

The sacred cattle of Helios are not ordinary animals. They belong to the order of the gods themselves, untouched by mortal ownership or need.

After leaving the land of the Sirens, Odysseus must guide his remaining ship through one of the most feared passages in all the Odyssey: the Strait of Scylla and Charybdis.

Beyond the wandering seas lies the island of the Sirens — mysterious beings whose voices draw sailors toward destruction.

To continue the journey home to Ithaca, Odysseus must first do something no living man is meant to do. He must descend into the Underworld.