“My mother Thetis tells me that there are two ways in which I may meet my end. If I stay here and fight, I shall not return alive but my name will live for ever: whereas if I go home my name will die, but it will be long ere death shall take me.”
~ The Iliad - Book IX (Samuel Butler Translation. p61 / v410)
Brief Summary
The Iliad Book IX. Agamemnon loses …