Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy's sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions.

-Homer   8c
c.700  BC  Odyssey, bk.1, l.1^5 (translated by Richmond Lattimore).