Odysseus became surrounded by more and more ghosts who had appalling cries and was afraid that Persephone might send up the head of the Gorgon (which turns men to stone.)
Odysseus is still alive.
Because he is a living person and only the dead must stay in the Underworld. Also, he does not go into the Underworld, but speaks to it's ghosts.
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.
In Homers Odyssey, the protagonist Odysseus is captured by the nymph Calypso on his way home from the battle of Troy. For seven years he is unable to leave the island, before Athene makes Zeus intervene by the hand of Hermes. Calypso frees Odysseus and by different circumstances he ends up in the company of Circe, daughter of Helios. Odysseus asks her how he can return home. Circe cannot give him the answer, but suggests that he seeks the advice of a prophet called Tiresias. Tiresias is dead, but Circe provides Odysseus with instructions on how to cross the river Styx, and enter Hades, the underworld. And that is the reason why Odysseus visited the underworld.
Odysseus is still alive.
Because he is a living person and only the dead must stay in the Underworld. Also, he does not go into the Underworld, but speaks to it's ghosts.
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
Elpenor was encountered by Odysseus in the underworld.
Odysseus went to the Underworld to get advice for his journey home.
In the Odyssey, he did not go into the Underworld but merely summoned ghosts of the dead to speak to him.
Circe told Odysseus how to reach the Underworld.
The blind prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias.
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The blind Theban prophet that Odysseus meets in the Underworld is Tiresias, also spelled Teiresias.