Eight summer film and TV releases that will inspire your next trip

Some of the film’s Greek and Italian shooting locations are believed to have inspired Homer himself, and though this (or whether the author even existed) has long been the subject of academic debate, the area’s dramatic, volcanic coastlines do seem tailor-made for encounters with mythical creatures. Travel with Odysseus to the turquoise seas, white sands and ancient acropolises of Greece’s Peloponnese region, where filming spots included Nestor’s Cave, a seaside formation located above the horseshoe-shaped Voidokoilia Beach. In Sicily, shooting took place in the Aeolian and Aegadian Islands, particularly Favignana; known as “Goat Island” and, according to urban legend, the island of the Cyclopes.