Travels

Odysseus was a very controversial character in Greek/Roman mythology. Form Troy, he supposedly sailed for ten years before being able to return home. He lost all of his men and when he finally arrived at his abode, there were dozens of suitors who had ransacked the estate. All of these events falling into place exactly as planned is highly unlikely, therefore we investigate to as to whether it was possible. His home was in Ithaca,Greece and he sailed to Troy, on the eastern edge of the modern day Turkey. Nearly all of the islands that were mentioned can be accounted for and the mentions of Egypt, Crete, and other prominent and recognizable civilizations bolster this conclusion.                

Ancient sources provide a wealth of interpretations of Odysseus' wanderings, with a complex range of traditions which affect one another in various ways. Broadly speaking there are two dominant trends. One is that of Euhemerist accounts, which re-wrote mythical stories without their fantastic elements, and were often seen as thereby recovering "historical" records. The other reflects the conventions of foundation myths, whereby stories of a city or institution being founded in the course of Odysseus' travels often came to have political significance.
Some identifications are common to both groups. The main distinctions between them are in how the identifications were passed down through the generations, and the uses to which they were put. The most standard identifications, which are rarely disputed in ancient sources, are

• land of the Cyclopes = Sicily[6]
• land of the Laestrygonians = Sicily[7]
• island of Aeolus = one or more of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily's north coast[8]
• Scheria, the land of the Phaeacians = Corcyra (modern Corfu), off the west coast of Greece and Albania[9]
• Ogygia, the island home of the nymph Calypso = Gaudos, modern Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago.[10] 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_Odyssey