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Hermes leads the spirits of the suitors to Hades, where they meet Achilles, Agamemnon, and other dead heroes. The scene revisits the Trojan past from the world of the dead.
Odysseus goes to Laertes’ farm and tests his father before revealing himself. The families of the suitors gather to avenge their dead. Athena stops the battle and orders both sides to remember their kinship. Ithaca is restored, and the Odyssey ends with peace.
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Meanwhile Cyllenian Hermes called forth the spirits of the wooers. He held in his hands his wand, a fair wand of gold, wherewith he lulls to sleep the eyes of whom he will, while others again he wakens even out of slumber; [5] with this he roused and led the spirits, and they followed gibbering. — Homer, Odyssey XXIV.1ff., trans. A. T. Murray (Loeb; Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0).
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