The Kingdom

of
The Dead
 Sails to the land of the
Cimmerian people

• Circe orders him to consult the dead

Theban prophet Tiresias
• And summon the dead
 Dead
• Odysseus makes sacrifices and makes
a pool of blood
• Then the dead come out of the ground
 Ghosts
• Dozens of Ghost
– The Prophet
– His mother
– Achilles
 The Theban Prophet
• Tells him how to get home
• Tells his future
• And tells him his fate
 Mother
• He lets his mother drink the blood
• Odysseus didn’t realize his mother had
died
• She tells him on what is happening at
home
 Achilles
• Odysseus thinks because Achilles was
such a powerful person that he would
rule the dead and not grieve at being
dead
• But Achilles is offened
 Swarmed
• He sees many characters in the cultural
mythology
• And Odysseus is swarmed by the dead
asking about their relatives so he flees