place
Athens
also: Ἀθῆναι, Ἀθηνέων, Ἀθηνάων
The city of Attica whose headland, Sunium, Menelaus's fleet passed on the voyage home; Orestes also comes from there to avenge Agamemnon.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §7.78 Athens
The Attic city Athena flies to after leaving Scheria, entering the close-built house of Erechtheus — the poem's glance at her own cult city just as she sets Odysseus down at Alcinous's gate.