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Summary:  (Ari)
Odysseus travels to Hades where he performs sacrifices as he was told to do to attract souls from the dead. First Elpenor, a spirit, asks him to give him a proper burial. Then he is told that he is destined to return back home and get his wife and home back away from the suitors and then he will have to make another trip to an island to calm Poseidon down. He then talks to his mothers spirit and she tells him about Ithaca and how she died in waiting for him to return.

Major Themes: (Kiki)
Misogyny or Deception Hospitality Homreic Reply Obedience to gods

Locations Traveled: (Alanna) 
Aeaea- p 140 River of Ocean- p 141, 156 The Underworld- p 141, 148 Phaeacia- p 148 (Odysseus pauses in his story)

Study Guide Questions:
He is greeted by Elpenor, who reminds him how he got to Hades Halls, and tells Odysseus to go back and give him a proper burial.
 * Who is the first person Odysseus meets in Hades?** (Juliette)

Anticleia, Odysseus' mother.
 * Who comes before Tiresias?** (Juliette)

Tiresias gives Odysseus yet another prophecy. This time he warns Odysseus that a god will make his journey back home much harder. Then Odysseus is informed of the possibility that he will return home but not without suffering, that is if he listens to Tiresias. Odysseus and his men will sail to an island, Thrinace, the island of the Sun-god, where plenty of cattle and sheep graze peacfully. However the men must not touch or harm these animals or Odysseus, his company, and ship will be destroyed. Although if Odysseus does not obey this prophecy, then //if// he returns home, it will be in a foreign ship and without all of his comrades, and with trouble in his house.
 * What warning does Tiresias offer?** (Juliette)

He will ave to set out once more to find a people that have no knowlegde of the sea, do not use salt on their food, and think that a ship oar is a "winnowing-fan." Then Odysseus must hold a sacrifice to Lord Poseidon, using a ram, a bull, and a breeding boar. Once that has been completed, Odysseus has yet another sacrifice to make to the people of the Underworld, just as he had promised.
 * What must Odysseus do after getting rid of the suitors?** (Juliette)

Odysseus will die from old age, around prosperous people.
 * How will Odysseus die?**

She died of heartache from worrying about Odysseus.
 * How did Odysseus’s mother die?**

Agamemnon tells Odysseus that he should never be too trusting, even with his wife.
 * What advice does Agamemnon give Odysseus?**

Tanatalus must endure hunger and thirst. This is because he offended the gods?
 * What must Tantalus endure? Why?**

Sisyphus has to get a boulder up a hill but it always rolls back. He must do this because he offended the gods. 
 * How does Sisyphus suffer? Why?**