person
Anticleia
also: Ἀντίκλεια
Odysseus's mother, daughter of Autolycus; her shade tells him in the underworld that she died of grief and longing for him, and reports on Penelope and Laertes.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §11.84 the spirit of my dead mother
Anticleia, who died of grief for Odysseus; her account of Penelope's fidelity and Laertes's misery in Book 11 is the emotional core of the underworld visit.