No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-- Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
— Homer Ancient

Iliad and Odyssey

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Context

The ghost of Achilles expressing a cynical and disillusioned view of the afterlife to Odysseus in The Odyssey.

Date / Period

c. 8th century BCE

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13763.Homer

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