Homer — "No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave o…"

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 — Homer Ancient · Iliad and Odyssey

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

Date: c. 8th century BCE

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