Odysseus meets the ghosts of Erebus who are described as "brides, and young men yet unwed, old men worn out with toil, girls once vibrant and still new to grief, and ranks of warriors slain in battle, showing their wounds from bronze-tipped spears, their armour stained with blood." Meets the ghost of Elpenor who recounts his death story. He meets the ghost of Teiresias who heeds warnings. he spoke to his mother's ghost Anticleia. Ghosts of Agamemnon. Ajax, and Achilles come to him. Circe tells Odysseus of the sirens and how to avoid them. When he sails he ties his men to the ship and fills their ears with wax to bypass the island and the sirens perish as a result.
Homer's Odyssey: Tales of Odysseus's wanderings in a prose translation by Tony Kline.
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