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Ithaca
A small city in upstate New York, home to Cornell University.
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, Robert H. Frank
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- Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, Robert H. Frank
- The Odyssey, Homer
A small, mountainous island in western Greece, Odysseus’s homeland, where he is king. An island in the Ionian Sea bears the name today; scholars argue over whether it is Homer’s Ithaca.