In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.