Odysseus ordered his men to flay and burn the slaughtered animals and pray to HADES (PLUTO) and PERSEPHONE, the king and queen of the Underworld. ![]() Here ODYSSEUS (ULYSSES) dug a pit and around it poured libations to the dead then, after many supplications, he cut the throats of sacrificed animals so that their blood would run into the pit, whereupon a multitude of the souls of the dead swarmed up. To reach the entrance to the Underworld, Odysseus and his men had to go to the farthest, sunless realm of the deep-flowing Ocean. Plato, Republic, the myth of Er, which concludes Book 10.Homer, Odyssey, Book 11, the Nekuia (“The Book of the Dead”). ![]() Three major ancient authors taken together provide a composite and virtually complete summary of the philosophical and religious beliefs about the afterlife evolved by the Greeks and Romans. ![]() Views of the Afterlife: The Realm of Hades
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