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The Odyssey (2026)
Where The Odyssey says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
A Greek myth, shot almost nowhere in Greece: Ithaca is a Sicilian castle, Hades is Iceland, and the giants walk a Scottish forest.
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Scenes and places
The Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy
Odysseus's trick works: the Greeks hide inside a wooden gift, the Trojans pull it past their walls, and the war ends in one night.
Set in Troy — The walled city where the Greek army wins the war with a wooden horse.
A Bronze Age city on the Aegean coast, the target of a ten-year Greek siege.
Filmed at Aït Benhaddou, near Ouarzazate, Morocco — A fortified clay village that stood in for Troy at the end of the war. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Ithaca: the kingless palace
Suitors crowd Odysseus's hall and pressure Penelope to choose a new king while Telemachus insists his father is alive. Penelope warns him that breaking the law of hospitality has a price.
Set in Ithaca — Odysseus's island kingdom, twenty years without its king.
A rocky island kingdom on the western edge of the Greek world.
Filmed at Castello di Santa Caterina, Favignana, Sicily, Italy — The castle and its surroundings stood in for the exteriors of Ithaca (coordinates are of the island). Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Sparta: Menelaus tells the story of the horse
Telemachus travels with Mentor to ask Menelaus what became of Odysseus. Menelaus and Helen recount the war and the horse, but cannot say where Odysseus is.
Set in Sparta — The palace of Menelaus and Helen.
The seat of Menelaus, whose wife's flight started the Trojan War.
Ogygia: Calypso's island
On Calypso's island, Athena tells Odysseus to go home. Calypso resists and pushes him to remember his past instead, which pulls the film back to the war.
Set in Ogygia — The island where the nymph Calypso keeps Odysseus.
In the poem, a remote island at the edge of the known sea.
Filmed at Calypso's Cave, Gozo, Malta — Malta is named as the location used for Calypso's Cave; exact cave not confirmed by the cited page. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Polyphemus's cave
Odysseus and his crew go ashore for supplies and are trapped in a cave by the Cyclops, who eats several of them. They blind him and escape, but his cry to his father Poseidon marks the voyage home.
Set in Polyphemus's island and cave — The cave where the Cyclops traps Odysseus's crew.
In the poem, the home of the one-eyed shepherd Polyphemus.
Filmed at Nestor's Cave, Voidokilia Beach, Messenia, Greece — Scenes featuring the Cyclops Polyphemus. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Favignana, Aegadian Islands, Sicily, Italy — Believed to be the 'goat island' of the poem (coordinates are of the island). Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The giants of Telepylus
The crew lands on Telepylus, where giants hunt them. Most of the men die and two of three ships sink, and the survivors turn against Odysseus.
Set in Telepylus — The harbour of the man-eating Laestrygonian giants.
In the poem, a harbour ringed by cliffs and ruled by giants.
Filmed at Culbin Forest, Moray, Scotland — Where the giant Laestrygonians were portrayed (coordinates are of the forest). Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Aeaea: Circe's island
The surviving crew seeks refuge with Circe, who turns them into pigs. Odysseus persuades her to change them back and learns the way to Hades.
Set in Aeaea — The island of the witch Circe.
In the poem, the island home of the witch Circe.
Hades: the underworld
Odysseus crosses into the underworld and speaks with the shades of his fallen soldiers, Agamemnon, and the prophet Tiresias, who tells him how the journey will go.
Set in Hades — The underworld across the river Oceanus.
In the poem, the land of the dead beyond the river Oceanus.
Filmed at Hjörleifshöfði and the south coast black sand beaches, Iceland — Black sand beaches used for the Greek underworld of Hades (coordinates are of Hjörleifshöfði; other Icelandic sites also used). Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Basiluzzo, Aeolian Islands, Italy — Aeolia Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Methoni Castle, Messenia, Greece — Peloponnese scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Acrocorinth, Corinth, Greece — Palace site scenes Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Findlater Castle, Moray, Scotland — Not stated Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at Buckie Harbour, Moray, Scotland — Not stated Google Maps · Apple Maps
Filmed at White Dune near Dakhla, Western Sahara — Desert scene Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Odysseus — The wily king of Ithaca, still away from home twenty years after the war.
- Telemachus — Odysseus's son, set on finding his father.
- Penelope — Queen of Ithaca, holding off the suitors.