Odyssey by Homer

[If you happen to be a hero, you suffer a lot and have your share of sorrows in war and at see, but you never stop having three things. (1) Having sex with goddesses.❤️ (2) Having everybody think of you as a “godlike”.🤟🏼 Aaand (3) having good meals and sweet wine with obligatory pouring libetions to gods beforehand: in 24 chapters they pour 20 libetions🍷. P.S. Lombardo’s translation is a masterpiece. I will wait a while and get to his translation of Iliad as well.]

<And Odysseus, the godlike survivor:
“I understand. You don’t have to prompt me.
You go in before me, and I’ll wait here.
I’ve had things thrown at me before,
And I have an enduring heart, Eumaeus.
God knows I’ve had my share of suffering
In war and at sea. I can take more if I have to.
But no one can hide a hungry belly.>

<‘Well then, sheath your sword and let’s
Climb into my bed and tangle in love there,
So we may come to trust each other.’
She spoke, and I answered her:
‘Circe, how can you ask me to be gentle to you
After you’ve turned my men into swine?
And now you have me here and want to trick me
Into going to bed with you, so that you can
Unman me when I am naked.
No, Goddess, I’m not getting into any bed with you Unless you agree first to swear a solemn oath
That you’re not planning some new trouble for me.’
Those were my words, and she swore an oath at once
Not to do me any harm, and when she finished
I climbed into Circe’s beautiful bed.>