Ulysses continues his narration. How he arrived at the land of the
Cimmerians, and what ceremonies he performed to invoke the dead. The
manner of his descent, and the apparition of the shades: his
conversation with Elpenor, and with Tiresias, who informs him in a
prophetic manner of his fortunes to come. He meets his mother Anticles,
from whom he learns the state of his family. He sees the shades of the
ancient heroines, afterwards of the heroes, and converses in particular
with Agamemnon and Achilles. Ajax keeps at a sullen distance, and
disdains to answer him. He then beholds Tityus, Tantalus, Sisyphus,
Hercules; till he is deterred from further curiosity by the apparition
of horrid spectres, and the cries of the wicked in torments.