A Gathering of Shades
THE ODYSSEY translated by Robert Fitzgerald
1. What sacrifice does Odysseus make to assuage the nations of the dead?
2. How did Elpenor die? What does Odysseus promise Elpenor?
3. What other spirits confront Odysseus in Hades?
4. What does the blind prophet advise Odysseus?
5. Odysseus is confronted by his mother’s spirit, what does he learn from her?
6. What reference to Oedipus is revealed in Book XI?
7. What does Odysseus recount in his conversations with Agamemnon? With Achilleus?
8. Why does Odysseus abruptly leave Hades?
