Ithaca

Troy fell. The fleet sailed home. Odysseus did not arrive for another ten years.This is not the story of the hero. It is the story of the man inside the hero — the one who watched six men eaten in a cave and gave the monster his real name out of pride, who fell asleep within sight of Ithaca and watched the winds escape, who tied himself to the mast not because he was strong enough to resist the Si...