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The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780-85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Eleven of the Odyssey. In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (Ancient Greek: νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy.
Tiresias appears to Odysseus during the nekyia of Odyssey Book XI, in this watercolor with tempera by the Anglo-Swiss Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1780–85. Tiresias died after drinking water from the tainted spring Tilphussa, where he was impaled by an arrow of Apollo.
Tiresias appears to Odysseus during the nekyia of Odyssey xi, in this watercolor with tempera by the Anglo-Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Füssli, c. 1780-85. Published around 30 BCE, the second book of Satires is a series of poems composed in dactylic hexameter by the Roman poet Horace.
The term is also used in a broad sense of any journey to the realm of the dead in other mythological and religious traditions. A katabasis is similar to a nekyia or necromancy, where one experiences a vision of the underworld or its inhabitants; a nekyia does not generally involve a physical visit.
Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the eponymous play by Guillaume Apollinaire. ...
The Lesche of the Knidians is one of the buildings within the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, north of the temple of Apollo. Its renown is due to its hosting two famous paintings of the Thasian painter Polygnotus, namely the Capture of Troy (Iliou Persis) and the Nekyia (the visit of Odysseus to Hades).
Nekyia From an alternative transliteration : This is a redirect from an alternative English transliteration to a more common variation . The prevalent spelling is given by the target of the redirect.
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.