"Three, four times blessed, my friends-in-arms
who died on the plains of Troy those years ago,
serving the sons of Atreus to the end. Would to god
I’d died there too and met my fate that day the Trojans,
swarms of them, hurled at me with bronze spears,
fighting over the corpse of proud Achilles!
A hero’s funeral then, my glory spread by comrades –
now what a wretched death I’m doomed to die!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 5, lines 338-345. Odysseus believes that he is going to die at sea, thanks to the storm sent by Poseidon. But the hero of the Trojan war wishes that he had met his end more gloriously with his dead comrades on the battlefields of Troy.