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The fame-centered life Achilles chose and later regrets when judged against love, family, and memory.
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The fame-centered life Achilles chose and later regrets when judged against love, family, and memory.
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Achilles' underworld speech reverses his life project: from eternity, he regrets choosing young heroic death over an old life with family.
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"And then Achilles says, he reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting. No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus. By God,..."
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"Okay, so Achilles responds and says, Odysseus, I'm dead now. So now I can look at my life in its entirety. I can now,..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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