‘Laertes’ son, great King Odysseus, master of every challenge, you need not remain here in my house against your will. But first you must complete another journey.490 Go to the house of Hades and the dreadful Persephone, and ask the Theban prophet, the blind Tiresias, for his advice. Persephone has given him alone full understanding, even now in death. The other spirits flit around as shadows.’
