這樣的英雄産生于人類剛剛進入文明的時期，當時Odysseus的狡猾多疑，按照那個時代的發展來看也不算太糟糕。

奇怪的是，Achilles和Odysseus 都是受到Athena女神眷顧的英雄人物。

可惜古往今來能夠存活的往往是精心鑽營之徒。過分感情用事的人，往往沒有好下場。Achilles與Odysseus在陰間相聚隻有短短一瞬，Odysseus盛贊Achilles的英名，而Achilles流露出對生命的渴望。這一幕倒是引發了不少争議。我曾經以為Achilles後悔了，他後悔選擇了短暫而榮耀的一生。即便到了陰間為王，也無法撫平他的忿怨之情。但是這種對生的渴望之中，也許還有對Odysseus展露的英雄的驕傲。此時Odysseus似乎和他和解了。也許他發自真心尊敬Achilles，有如對驕陽的崇敬。

英文摘要

I always harbor a passion for Greek mythology, be it stemming from bedtime story in my childhood or the fancy world of heroes and gods itself. A wealth of epics and plays never fail to impress upon me the classic heroism and violent dramatic conflicts, one example being Achilles’ choice of a short and glorious life over a long and mediocre one. Nonetheless I can’t help but feel sorry for his doomed death resulted from that coward Paris’ arrow. It would bring me great relief had the poems ended when Achilles shared a fairly short period of reconciliation with the Trojans. But the scattered Homeric poems nevertheless presented me with the vivid depiction of his doomsday. (Well, I reckon that we readers can’t always have what we want.) The readers of the epic may become tragically aware that death, or fate, is whimsical throughout the Homeric poems and other Greek plays, with no one immune from its power, mortals or immortals alike. Perhaps it is the irrevocable fate of the heroes and gods that constitute the reason why the epics are still alive throughout the rivers of time.