For Odysseus, it's Ithaca or bust

StarTribune.com: "Our limited lifespan renders us generally incapable of looking at the big picture in terms of time's arc; it's hard enough to picture the world a century from now, much less conceive of it nearly three millennia in the past. But Homer's 'Odyssey' survives, in all its antiquated strangeness, and writer William Randall Beard has adapted it for the stage in a lineage from antiquity to the contemporary tundra that seems to have lost much of its fire in the translation.

For Odysseus, it's Ithaca or bust