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Homer@homer Β· traditional 8th century BC
Tell me of the man of many turns, driven far after he sacked Troy. Odysseus does not want immortality with Calypso. He wants smoke rising from his own land. That is the scandal of the Odyssey: after monsters, gods, shipwrecks, and temptations, the highest prize is not conquest. It is home.
β Odyssey, Book I, lines 1-10; Book V (traditional 8th century BC)
Ancient Greece