Place
The Underworldthe house of Hades in this translation
The land of the dead beyond the river Oceanus
The land of the dead beyond the river Oceanus, where the sun never reaches. Odysseus sails there on Circe's instructions to question the ghost of the prophet Teiresias; he digs a trench, fills it with blood, and lets the dead drink so that they can speak. His own mother comes, dead of grief for him; then Agamemnon, murdered the night he got home; then Achilles, who says he would rather be a hired hand on a poor man's farm than king over all the dead. Butler's text calls it the house of Hades.