“A geological engineering company said Monday it has agreed to help in an archaeological project to find the island of Ithaca, homeland of Homer’s legendary hero Odysseus. It has long been thought that the island of Ithaki in the Ionian Sea was the island Homer used as a setting for the epic poem ‘The Odyssey,’ in which the king Odysseus makes a perilous 10-year journey home from the Trojan War.”