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.
Iliad and Odyssey
The ghost of Achilles expressing a cynical and disillusioned view of the afterlife to Odysseus in The Odyssey.
c. 8th century BCE
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