The hero Odysseus in Homer's epic from Greek mythology
Book Eleven
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'At the furthest edge of Ocean's stream is the land to which all journey when they die. Here their spirits endure a fleshless existence. They can't even talk unless re-animated with blood.'
Accordingly, I did as Circe instructed, bleeding a sacrificed lamb into a pit. Tiresias, the blind prophet who had accompanied us to Troy, was the soul I had to talk to. So I held all the other shades at bay with my sword until he had drunk from the pit. He gave me warnings about my journey home and told me what I must do to ensure a happy death when my time came. I met the shades of many famous women and heroes, including Achilles, best fighter of the Greeks at Troy. |
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Ocean Ocean was conceived of as a river running around the circumference of the flat world.
shades This is the term most often applied to the insubstantial wraiths of the Underworld. |
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 Featuring the hero Odysseus in Homer's epic from Greek mythology
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Book Eleven
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'At the furthest edge of Ocean's stream is the land to which all journey when they die. Here their spirits endure a fleshless existence. They can't even talk unless re-animated with blood.'
Accordingly, I did as Circe instructed, bleeding a sacrificed lamb into a pit. Tiresias, the blind prophet who had accompanied us to Troy, was the soul I had to talk to. So I held all the other shades at bay with my sword until he had drunk from the pit. He gave me warnings about my journey home and told me what I must do to ensure a happy death when my time came. I met the shades of many famous women and heroes, including Achilles, best fighter of the Greeks at Troy. |
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Ocean Ocean was conceived of as a river running around the circumference of the flat world.
shades This is the term most often applied to the insubstantial wraiths of the Underworld. |