Arrowboth
ye kings and warriors! may your vows be crown'd,
and troy's proud walls lie level with the ground.
may jove restore you when your toils are o'er
safe to the pleasures of your native shore.
but, oh! relieve a wretched parent's pain,
and give chryseis to these arms again;
if mercy fail, yet let my presents move,
and dread avenging phoebus, son of jove.

(excerpt from the iliad by homer)

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.