The Childhood Leaving Ithaka Exile in Swden Soul Searching Justification		ODYSSEUS LEFT ITHAKA In a country where, at the time, the political affiliation of the newspaper you were reading could make, or destroy, someones career, what young Panos was doing was tantamount to the revolution. This intellectual aggressiveness followed him through high-school, into his student's time in electronic engineering. Throughout his school years he worked during the summers, and later on he found work in a foundry. It was really heavy work even for the biggest and toughest of men. Panos , small as he was, and fragile looking, managed to outperform the others. Parallel to this, his other activities began to attract attention to him. He wrote letters to local authorities, to the press, to various governmental agencies, pointing out at wrongdoings, misgivings, injustices, corruption, fraud and nepotism. He would discover them, uncover them, and expose them. It was a noble war he had started. A war which unfortunately for him, he was never going to win. The established canters of power began to take notice of him. That was the start. Then they became annoyed. They started giving him warnings. He continued. They began to act against him. The police, instead of going after guilty parties he reported, started to threaten him, persecuting him to the point where he was left with no other choice but to leave the country, or face annihilation, professional, as well as physical.