“But you, Achilles,there’s not a man in the world more blest than you— there never has been, never will be one.Time was, when you were alive, we Argiveshonored you as a god, and now down here, I see,you lord it over the dead in all your power.So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.”I reassured the ghost, but he broke out, protesting,“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.”
- (Book 11, 547-558)
Achilles and Odysseus argue because Odysseus is envious of the strength that Achilles won by and although he is now dead he was strong and did something great. However, Achilles is jealous that Odysseus is still alive and breathing
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