In the Odyssey, books 10 and 11 are known as "Land of the Dead." The Odyssey proceeds with Odysseus continuing his quest to return to Ithaca. Having blinded the dreaded cyclops, Polyphemus, Odysseus escaped his island and sailed on. As the Odyssey book 10 begins, Odysseus and his crew come to the island of the god of wind, Aeolus.. THE ODYSSEY BOOK 11, TRANSLATED BY A. T. MURRAY [1] "But when we had come down to the ship and to the sea, first of all we drew the ship down to the bright sea, and set the mast and sail in the black ship, and took the sheep and put them aboard, and ourselves embarked, sorrowing, and shedding big tears. And for our aid in the wake of our dark-prowed ship a fair wind that filled the sail, a.
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Book XI Visit of Ulysses to the Land of the Dead Voyage to the land of the dead—Interview with Tiresias, the seer—The heroes and heroines whom Ulysses saw there—Interview with his mother, and with Agamemnon, Achilles, and others—Occupations of the dead—Punishments of the guilty. "Now, when we reached our galley by the shore, We drew it first into the mighty deep, And.. Whoever of the dead departed you allow to approach the blood will speak to you indeed: but whoever you deny will draw back."' BkXI:150-224 Odysseus tells his tale: The Spirit of Anticleia 'With this the ghost of Lord Teiresias, its prophecy complete, drew back to the House of Hades.