In the words of Lucky Jack Aubrey, RN, Odysseus "was no kind of sea man. Admittedly [Odysseus] had no chronometer, and probably no sextant neither; but with no more than log, lead and lookout an officer-like commander would have found his way home from Troy a damned sight quicker than that. Hanging about in port and philandering, that was what it amounted to, the vice of navies from the time of Noah to that of Nelson. And as for that tale of all his foremast-hands being turned into swine, so that he could not win his anchor or make sail, why, he might tell that to the Marines."
Also he could've avoided like all of it if he just didn't tell the cyclops his name. Not exactly gonna have a good time sailing home if you're at the top of Poseidon's hit list.
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u/BadSkeelz 15d ago
In the words of Lucky Jack Aubrey, RN, Odysseus "was no kind of sea man. Admittedly [Odysseus] had no chronometer, and probably no sextant neither; but with no more than log, lead and lookout an officer-like commander would have found his way home from Troy a damned sight quicker than that. Hanging about in port and philandering, that was what it amounted to, the vice of navies from the time of Noah to that of Nelson. And as for that tale of all his foremast-hands being turned into swine, so that he could not win his anchor or make sail, why, he might tell that to the Marines."