![]() ![]() That says it all - “I would rather follow the plow…”Ĭaroline Alexander ends her 2009 The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and the Trojan War, a book-long commentary and discussion of Homer’s first epic, with a recounting of this scene from its sequel. Than be a king over all the perished dead.” Man, one with no land allotted him, and not much to live on, I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another “O shining Odysseus, never try to console me for dying. ![]() “Do not grieve, even in death, Achilles.”īut the Greek hero is having none of that. In the Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus takes a trip to Hades where he encounters many of his former comrades from the Trojan War, including Achilles who asks him:Įndure to come down here to Hades’ place, where the senselessĭead men dwell, mere imitations of perished mortals?”Ĭheerful, like a clueless visitor to a deathbed, Odysseus seeks to reassure the one who is “far the greatest of the Achaeans,” by reminding him that, in life, he was honored like the gods and, now, he has great authority over the dead. ![]()
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