Yeah, from Troy, Michigan, to Ithaca, NY, was a bit of a big ask for Homer Simpson to write about back then. No wonder he got confused. And his descriptive faculties were never that good to begin with.
So that all makes sense. Don’t recall the Odysseus character in the show, though...
And his Roman counterpart, Yule Lysses, didn't make it into the Peanuts Christmas special.