Tiresias appears during this event and tells its main participant that he is to kill the suitors of his wife in his palace on Ithaca.
During this episode, a man with a golden staff requests that a hero put aside his sword so he can take a drink. A character attempts to embrace his mother three times during this event but fails each time. Tyro, Antiope, and Alcmene are the first of a large number of princesses to appear during this episode, in which Elpenor requests the creation of a mound with an oar stuck out of it. Conversations with Ajax and Heracles that occur during this event are related to (*) Alcinous. Figures who appear during this example of a nekyia, such as Anticlea, consume the blood of a sacrifice recommended by a woman from Aeaea. Tiresias appears during this event and tells its main participant that he is to kill the suitors of his wife in his palace on Ithaca. For 10 points, identify this event in which a Homeric hero encounters the dead.
During this episode, a man with a golden staff requests that a hero put aside his sword so he can take a drink.
Odysseus's conversation with the spirits of the underworld [accept Odysseus's nekyia until the word nekyia is read; accept anything that indicates Odysseus going into the underworld and/or Hades or conversing with spirits from the underworld, but don't accept anything involving the word katabasis since in strict terms it's not one; accept more specific answers like Odysseus's conversation with Teiresias; accept Book Eleven of the Odyssey]