For what it's worth, Odysseus is the only one to make it back to Ithaca. All of his men end up devoured by Polyphemus or other monsters, drowned or worse.. So

For what it's worth, Odysseus is the only one to make it back to Ithaca. All of his men end up devoured by Polyphemus or other monsters, drowned or worse.. So maybe becoming a lotus-eater would not have been that bad after all.