This Odyssey of Life

One day, 3,000 years ago, a group of sailors left a man on a rocky shore in the Ionian Sea, perhaps even the one in the picture below. He missed home for twenty years, toiling at war and wandering the endless waters in search of glory and a way to go home. In modernity he is but a name and his journey a metaphor for the struggles of life.
Yet, his passion and humanity live on...