- The ‘Nekyia’ | Homer and the Poetics of Hades | Oxford Academic
Abstract This chapter offers an analysis of the beginning of Odysseus’ Underworld journey in Odyssey 11 It follows closely the action as it develops in Odyssey 11 and it introduces the reader to the actual poetics of Hades through the discussion of the first encounters the hero has in Hades with his former companion Elpenor, the seer Teiresias, and his mother Antikleia The chapter further
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