The German archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld, having examined the geographical descriptions of Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey believed  that Lefkada was Homer's Ithaca, and that the palace of Odysseus was located west of Nydri on the south coast of Lefkada.
Wilhelm Dörpfeld, a German archaeologist who scrutinized geographical descriptions in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, thought that Lefkada was Homer's Ithaca, and he believed the palace of Odysseus was situated west of Nydri on the southern coast of Lefkada.