One of the seven Ionian islands, small and unimportant, but
interesting as being the Homeric island-kingdom of
Ulysses—the principal scene of the story of the Odyssey. The
island has been more or less explored, with a view to
identifying the localities mentioned in the epic, by Sir
William Gell, by Colonel Leake, and by Dr. Schliemann. Some
account of the latter's work and its results is given in the
introduction to his "Ilios."
_E. H. Bunbury,
History of Ancient Geography,
chapter 3, note I (volume 1)._