"I love that Odysseus and Achilles are complete disasters as heroes; they made terrible mistakes. They’re incredibly proud and angry. They reign destruction down on the people around them—the people that they love, not just their enemies. Achilles’s name—there are a couple different etymologies for it, but likely it comes from grief to the people. Odysseus’s name is related etymologically to the word that means to be hated."

https://www.publicbooks.org/madeline-miller-on-circe-mythological-realism-and-literary-correctives/