".... she is mortal after all and you, you never age or die... nevertheless I long- I pine, all my days to travel home and see the dawn of my return. And if a god will werck me yet again on the wine-dark sea, i can bear that too, with a spirit tempered to endure. Much i have suffered laboured long and hard by now in the waves and wars. add this to the total- bring the trial on!"
This is Odyseus' heroic mantra, he has waited years to go home and realizing he wont just be set free he must demand his passage home. This is what proves he is a true hero, he has a perfect life with calypso on her beautiful island getting anything he could desire. But he wants his home, with his wife and son, his glory. He may have everything in a lazy mans eyes, but to him he has nothing. He has already suffered so much, and yet he realizes that there may still be more to come, but Odyseus is an epic hero and will bear through any task put before him. Endure any labour and will not give up until he reaches his home and completes nostos, or die trying.
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