Who says the following and why?

"by god, i'd rather slave on earth for another man—
some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—
than rule down here over all the breathless dead."

a. odysseus is telling his crewmates that it is better to be alive.
b. agamemnon is cursing his wife clytemnestra.
c. achilles is rebutting odysseus's praise.
d. tiresias is encouraging odysseus to "keep the course."