The Odyssey

Flashbacks of Agamemnon's homecoming and Clytemnestra's welcome. Filmed at this citadel, not at Mycenae itself.

Acrocorinth

as Mycenae

Following a stray sheep, the crew find themselves trapped in the Cyclops' cave. Look up from Voidokilia; you cannot go in.

Nestor's Cave

as Island of the Cyclopes

Lost at sea, the crew land at lush green cliffs and meet Circe. Her house sat on the approach to this promontory, next to the surviving bailey.

Findlater Castle

as Aeaea

Odysseus and the crew land for supplies and burn the village on this cove. The giant's cave is a separate climb above the beach.

Voidokilia Beach

as Island of the Cyclopes

Odysseus eats lotus flowers with Calypso and loses seven years on this white dune.

Dune Blanche

as Ogygia

Penelope and Telemachus wait at the hilltop palace. A pig farm for Eumaeus was built alongside; both were this summit, not the island as a whole.

Castello di Santa Caterina

as Ithaca

Telemachus comes here for news of his father. The Bourtzi stands in for the palace of Menelaus and Helen.

Methoni Bourtzi

as Sparta

Avoiding Charybdis, the ship runs the channel where six-headed Scylla picks off the crew. This rock is Scylla's perch.

Scoglio Spinazzola

as Aeolia

Sixty extra structures, including the Temple of Athena and the city gates, were dressed onto the ksar for Troy's destruction. Walk the same kasbah lanes; the added buildings are gone.

Aït Benhaddou

as Troy

The crew stop their ears and Odysseus is lashed to the mast as the ship passes this shoal.

Pietra del Bagno

as Aeolia

Odysseus faces the unquiet shades of the past on these volcanic sands, with Mýrdalsjökull and Katla in view.

Hjörleifshöfði black sand

as Hades

The ship threads Homer's Wandering Rocks — these two volcanic spines, not a digital set.

Faraglioni di Lipari

as Aeolia

The Trojans haul a wooden horse left mired in the sand — reimagined as an offering to Poseidon — from this beach back to the city.

Essaouira Beach

as Troy