"You must be a fool, stranger, or come from nowhere,
if you really have to ask what land this is.
Trust me, it’s not so nameless after all.
It’s known the world around,
to all who live to the east and rising sun
and to all who face the western mists and darkness."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 13, lines 269-275. When Athena appears in the disguise of a young shepherd boy to help Odysseus, Odysseus asks what country is he in. She tells him that he has landed on Ithaca.