“Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees, he thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years. But then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times, bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart. Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth, turn as the days turn . . .” The Odyssey, although it was composed near the end of the 8th century BCE, is a perfect example of good literature. It has a feature to it that makes it timeless and under all of the heroism that it portrays, there is also a certain sincerity to it that remains within the text. It shows raw human nature and in it how we are all flawed.