Better a servant on earth than a king in the world of the dead: some notes on Achilles and death based on Book XI of the *Odyssey*.

Abstract

 This paper intends to present some appointments about the relation between Achilles and death from the Book XI of the Odyssey. Through this book we will point the changes of hero’s conception of death, emphasized by his dialog with Odisseus – when the nostalgia appears as a center dimension of Achilles’ thought. Keywords: Achilles, Homeric narrative, postmortem (the).