·Reported
Unlike Teiresias, the other ghosts flit about aimlessly without understanding.
See evidence text
“To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly”
Character · Collective
ghosts other than Teiresias
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- ghosts other than Teiresias
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Character
- Scope
- Collective
- Editorial note
- No editorial note published.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
0
Location presence
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
No presence observations in the processed scope.
Claims
5
·Hypothetical
Circe calls the ghosts poor and feeble while directing Ulysses to pray and promise them a rich sacrifice in Ithaca.
See evidence text
“you must offer many prayers to the poor feeble ghosts, and promise them that when you get back to Ithaca you will sacrifice a barren heifer to them, the best you have, and will load the pyre with good things”
·Hypothetical
Many ghosts will approach the sacrifice and must be kept from the spilt blood until Teiresias answers.
See evidence text
“many dead men’s ghosts will come to you, and you must tell your men to skin the two sheep that you have just killed, and offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine. Then draw your sword and sit there, so as to prevent any other poor ghost from coming near the spilt blood”
·Reported
Any ghost allowed to taste the blood can speak reasonably; one denied it goes away.
See evidence text
“Any ghost that you let taste of the blood will talk with you like a reasonable being, but if you do not let them have any blood they will go away again”
·Reported
The dead lose bodily cohesion as flesh and bones perish, while the soul flits away like a dream.
See evidence text
“all people are like this when they are dead. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and bones together; these perish in the fierceness of consuming fire as soon as life has left the body, and the soul flits away as though it were a dream”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
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Additional evidence
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·Reported
“the other ghosts flit about aimlessly”
·Remembered
“the other ghosts”