“Recognizing that your suffering has been caused by no one else magnifies the pain”
τὸ γὰρ ἐσλεύσσειν οἰκεῖα πάθη,
μηδενὸς ἄλλου παραπράξαντος,
μεγάλας ὀδύνας ὑποτείνει.
But did Ajax really cause all of this pain for himself?
Tag: heroic suffering
Homer, Odyssey 14.399-400
Let us take pleasure from recalling one another’s greivous pains
κήδεσιν ἀλλήλων τερπώμεθα λευγαλέοισι / μνωομένω
The full text.
Odysseus isn’t a hero just because of the suffering he caused