...immortality, believed in a vague, shadowy, and unsatisfying immortality. Homer makes the dead Achilles say ! would be A laborer on earth and serve for hire Some...mean estate, who makes scant cheer, Rather than reign over all who have gone down To death. For the Hades of the heathen was a shadowy abode in which there...

...first among the dead, the latter replies : Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death As if thon could' st console me. I would be A laborer on earth and serve...hire Some man of mean estate who makes scant cheer, Bather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death. Speak rather of my noblo son ; Whether or not...

...famous words of the Greek Achilleus, which he speaks to Odysseus in the underworld : " Noble Odysscus, speak not thus of death, As if thou couldst console...who makes scant cheer, Rather than reign o'er all that have gone down To death. Speak rather of my noble son. Whether or not he yet has joined the wars...

...encounters Achilles in Hades and congratulates him on being first among the dead, the latter replies: Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death As If thou...me. I would be A laborer on earth and serve for hire Bome roan of mean estate who makes scant cheer. Bather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death....

...drink blood in order to exercise the faculties of intelligence and memory. Achilles says to him: — " I would be A laborer on earth, and serve for hire...cheer Rather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death." * There is no positive punishment in Hades, except for 1 oi plv y&p ri iroii i<mv bl^vpoTfpov...

...the hero's answer to the attempted consolations of the living Ulysses at their interview in Hades : * I would be A laborer on earth, and serve for hire...cheer, Rather than reign o'er all who have gone down to death,' " Except Plato, there is no more Christian pagan than Plutarch. In his letter of consolation...

...represented as speaking to Ulysses there in the world of the departed, — in Hades; and he says: — ..." Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death, As if thou...cheer, Rather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death." . . . The Greeks believed that the dead lived in Hades, — this underground twilight world....

...hardly more hopeful than that of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Homer makes the dead Achilles declare : "I would be A laborer on earth and serve for hire...mean estate, who makes scant cheer, Rather than reign over all who have gone down To death." Parallel to this, 4n some respects more gloomy, were the ancient...

...represented as speaking to Ulysses there in the world of the departed, — in Hades; and he says: — ..." Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death, As if thou...hire Some man of mean estate who makes scant cheer, Ralhcr than reign o'er all who have gone down To death." . . . The Greeks believed that the dead lived...

...better than a dead lion, when lie says: " Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death As if thou wouldst console me. I would be A laborer on earth, and serve...cheer, Rather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death." —Bryant. The next adventure of our navigators is their escape from the grisly dangers...