In Hades

Odysseus' ship travelled to the end of the ocean where the entrance to Hades was located.

The dead approach Odysseus

Odysseus entered Hades, dug a pit, slaughtered two lambs in it and offered gifts to the dead, flour, milk and wine, water and honey. Then many of the dead gathered around.

Dead comrades-in-arms

Odysseus saw Achilles, Agamemnon and many of the others who were killed in Troy.

Sisyphus

From afar he saw Sisyphus, who was struggling to climb a rock on the top of a mountain.

His mother

He also saw his dead mother Anticlea, whom he had left alive in Ithaca when he left for Troy.

Tiresias

After a while the fortune teller Tiresias arrived and then Odysseus asked him how they would manage to reach Ithaca. The seer told him: "Poseidon hates you because you blinded Cyclops Polyphemus, his son. But if you do not harm the oxen of the god Sun, when you go to his island, you will reach Ithaca one day. He even told him what to do whenever he found difficulties.