Who Does Odysseus Talk To
When His Men Finally Persuade Him to Continue the Voyage Homeward, Odysseus Asks Circe for the Way Back to Ithaca. She Replies He Must Sail to Hades, the Realm...
When his men finally persuade him to continue the voyage homeward, Odysseus asks Circe for the way back to Ithaca. She replies he must sail to Hades, the realm of the dead, to speak with the spirit of Tiresias, a blind prophet who will tell him how to get home.
Who is Odysseus talking to in Book 1?
Summary: Book 1 The story begins ten years after the end of the Trojan War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek heroes except Odysseus have returned home. Odysseus languishes on the remote island Ogygia with the goddess Calypso, who has fallen in love with him and refuses to let him leave.
What other characters does Odysseus speak with and what does he learn from them?
Next he visits the Land of Departed Spirits, where he speaks to the spirit of Agamemnon and learns from the Theban seer Tiresias how he can expiate Poseidon’s wrath. He then encounters the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun, which his companions, despite warnings, plunder for food.
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