Sailing: a trusting relationship. Day 5

In my opinion there is nothing worse than the sea at crushing a man, however great his strength may be.

Thus spake Homer in book 8 of the Odyssey.

For the ancient Greeks, there was no place on Earth which escaped the power of the gods. In the Odyssey, even the Cyclopes were caught in a relationship with the gods. The gods-despising Polyphemus was the son …