“Ithaca is not a destination, it is an eternal journey. And this concerns each of us. Because we all experience our own Odyssies and have our own Ithacas,” says the former prime minister Alexis Tsipras in a social media post about the title he chose for his book.
In the podcast that will be presented tomorrow and includes a discussion with Emilios Chiilakis and Spilios Lambropoulos, Alexis Tsipras talks for the first time about Ithaca and presents the outline of my book, explains what prompted him to write it, what inspired him and what made it difficult for him”.
“Ithaca is also about politics. It has to do with the Left, it has to do with society, it has to do with social struggles, the evolution of the world,” Mr. Tsipras notes in the excerpt he previously published and adds: “It doesn’t stop, this never stops. And Ithaca is almost like the socialism we used to say, that the more you go towards it, the further away it will be. Like the horizon that recedes as you go. In this sense, the title I have chosen also has a philosophical value. Of course, I chose him six months ago, having structured the book and having finally realized that there is an allegorical field of everything we lived as a collective adventure and the adventure that each person has by fighting, claiming, hoping, dreaming and conquering some of them.”
Check out his post:
Tomorrow Tuesday on Bookvoice – The podcast, in an interesting discussion with Emilios Chiilakis and Spilios Lambropoulos, I talk for the first time about Ithaca. I present the framework of my book, I explain what prompted me to write it, I talk about what inspired me but also about… pic.twitter.com/ihu7h83ijk
— Alexis Tsipras (@atsipras) November 10, 2025