I have gone through so much, at sea and in the war

 

I want to go back home,

and every day I hope that day will come.

If some god strikes me on the wine-dark sea,

I will endure it. By now I am used

to suffering—I have gone through so much,

at sea and in the war. Let this come too.

—Homer, The Odyssey, book 5, lines 219–242

 

 

"Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus", 1829 by J M W Turner

Wikipedia: "Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side. Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon..."