STORY: Wildfires fanned by a heatwave and strong winds continued to rage across southern Europe on Wednesday, as houses, ...

Travel facts: A week in Cephalonia departing May 20 costs £239 per person, including return Gatwick flights and self-catering accommodation. Details from Kosmar Holidays on 0870 7000747 ...

Firefighters discover the body of an elderly person inside their burned home. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

LONDON — The long-lost city of Ithaca, home of the legendary hero Odysseus in the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” is on the island of Cephalonia off the western shore of Greece, three British ...

Capt. Grace, of the National steamship Egypt, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, reported that on Jan. 23, in latitude 50 20' and longitude 24 50', he spoke the Cunard steamship Cephalonia ...

LONDON, Oct. 24.--The Cunard steamer Cephalonia, which sailed from Liverpool to-day for Boston, had to put into Holyhead on account of an explosion of a boiler, by which the second engineer and ...

Catalogue Status Research in Progress Description Landscape sketch showing views of rock formations and rocky islands near the coast of Cephalonia, Greece. Along the upper portion, a large, rocky ...

But modern Ithaca—a few miles east of Cephalonia—was hardly “the farthest out to sea,” and its mountainous topography doesn’t fit Homer’s “lying low” description.

The people of Greece are no strangers to strong earthquakes. The last significant one in this area was in 2008, when a magnitude 6.5 quake struck on the mainland just to the east of Cephalonia, ...