"It is Circe, of course, who turns half of Odysseus' men into pigs, but who becomes Odysseus' lover and advisor after he-with the help of an antidote and some instructions given him by Hermes-fails to to succumb to her drug. It is she who tells Odysseus that he must visit the underworld, learning from Tiresias how he can "cross the swarming sea and reach home at last," and after his return from that informative journey into the land of the dead, it is she who reinforces Teiresias' warning not to let his men butcher the oxen of the sun." http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/Hum110/odysseyconvocation2005.html
To reach "home at last" one must be in the boat? In ERHC's case, one must own shares to reach home?