Question: when odysseus returns to ithaca?
Answer: We should therefore be able to date the return of Odysseus to Ithaca to October 25th, 1207 B.C., and the slaying of the wooers to October 30th, 1207 B.C.* Which would put the beginning of the Trojan War in 1227 B.C. and its end in 1217 B.C.