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Homer: The OdysseyGrade 7dialectic Stage

The Dwellings of the Dead

Ulysses sails to the underworld. He speaks with the prophet Tiresias, his mother, Achilles, and others. Achilles says he would rather be a slave alive than king of the dead.

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