这样的英雄产生于人类刚刚进入文明的时期，当时Odysseus的狡猾多疑，按照那个时代的发展来看也不算太糟糕。

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

可惜古往今来能够存活的往往是精心钻营之徒。过分感情用事的人，往往没有好下场。Achilles与Odysseus在阴间相聚只有短短一瞬，Odysseus盛赞Achilles的英名，而Achilles流露出对生命的渴望。这一幕倒是引发了不少争议。我曾经以为Achilles后悔了，他后悔选择了短暂而荣耀的一生。即便到了阴间为王，也无法抚平他的忿怨之情。但是这种对生的渴望之中，也许还有对Odysseus展露的英雄的骄傲。此时Odysseus似乎和他和解了。也许他发自真心尊敬Achilles，有如对骄阳的崇敬。

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.