OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Back From War, but Not Really Home

By CAROLINE ALEXANDER

Published: November 7, 2009

Holderness, N.H.

WASHED onto the shores of his island home, after 10 years' absence in a foreign war and 10 years of hard travel in foreign lands, Odysseus, literature's most famous veteran, stares around him: "But now brilliant Odysseus awoke from sleep in his own fatherland, and he did not know it,/having been long away." Additionally, the goddess Athena has cast an obscuring...