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In Book XI of the Odyssey, Odysseus makes a trip to the underworld to seek the advice of the dead prophet Tiresias. In the underworld, he encounters many spirits, among them is that of his mother, Anticlea. [9] Initially, he rebuffs her since he is waiting for the prophet to approach.
The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age , it is a retelling of the Trojan War as told from the perspective of Patroclus . The novel follows Patroclus' relationship with Achilles , from their initial meeting to their exploits during the Trojan War , with focus on their romantic ...
Achilles is a major character in Madeline Miller's debut novel, The Song of Achilles (2011), which won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction. The novel explores the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to the fateful events of the Iliad. Achilles appears in the light novel series Fate/Apocrypha (2012–2014) as the Rider of Red.
The earliest mention of Eurypylus occurs in Homer's Odyssey. [20] In the underworld, Odysseus meets Achilles' ghost who asks Odysseus to tell him about his son Neoptolemus. Odysseus tells how, during the fighting at Troy, Achilles' son killed a great warrior, the magnificent and beautiful Eurypylus, son of Telephus. And that Eurypylus, and many ...
The Odyssey (/ ˈ ɒ d ɪ s i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2] [3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books.
The Lost Books of the Odyssey; O. Olympos (novel) P. The Penelopiad; R. Return to Ithaca (novel) U. Ulysses (novel) W. The World's Desire
This is an accepted version of this page This is the accepted version, checked on 20 January 2025. There are template/file changes awaiting review. Legendary Greek king of Ithaca For other uses, see Odysseus (disambiguation). See also: Ulysses Fictional character Odysseus Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa ...
Dylan mentioned the Odyssey, and specifically Odysseus' trip to see Achilles in the underworld, in his Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech. [26] Monica Silveira Cyrino, another classics scholar, notes that the reference in the song to Achilles being "hungry, like a man in drag" recalls the episode where Achilles's mother Thetis ...