The Many Maps of the Odyssey
Since the launch of the Google Maps API back in 2005, two fictional journeys have been mapped over and over again: Phileas Fogg’s global circumnavigation in Around the World in Eighty Days, and Odysseus’ long voyage home in the Odyssey. For some reason Homer’s hero is having a bit of a moment - and a sudden surge of new Odyssey maps means Od ysseus seems to have pulled ahead of Phileas Fogg in the fictional journey mapping contest. The Odyssey Journey The latest entry in this sudden wave of Homeric cartography is The Odyssey Journey , an animated, narrated retelling of Odysseus' decade-long voyage back to Ithaca. The route unfolds across a beautifully illustrated, hand-crafted SVG map of the Mediterranean, which provides a striking backdrop for an automated guided tour through all fourteen stages of the hero's journey. As the map slowly pans and zooms between locations, narration recounts each episode, from the fall of Troy and the encounter with the Lotus-Eaters to...
