Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Simon Hornblower
  • The nostoi and archaic Greek ethnicity / Robert L. Fowler
  • Odysseus' eclectic itinerary / Stephanie West
  • Returning heroes and Greek colonists / Irad Malkin
  • Nostoi as heroic foundations in southern Italy / Guglielmo Genovese
  • Women and nostoi / Tanja S. Scheer
  • Nostos, a journey towards identity in Athenian tragedy / Giulia Biffis
  • Emotional returns / N.J. Lowe
  • Macedonians and nostoi / Robin Lane Fox
  • Nostoi and material culture in the area of classical-Hellenistic Ionian and Adriatic seas / Catherine Morgan
  • Failed nostoi and foundation / Naoise Mac Sweeney
  • Mediterranean perspectives on departure, displacement, and home.