How faithfull can be a flip flop, expecially when its color is close to blue In Homer's Odyssey, Argos (Greek: Άργος) had been waiting for him for no reason: twenty years of his time wasted. Now tell me the lesson that we've learned from Homer struggling twenty years to get home to Ithaca. He was NOT a good explorer, colonizer, and navigator: that's all that we've learned.