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Specific answer required. In a satire by Lucian, Tiresias is described as seeking this place when he counsels Menippus to “go your way with ever a smile and never a passion.” One man is described in this place “driving before him…the wild beasts whom he had slain upon the mountains” and holding a bronze club. This (15[1])place can be found past “the streams of Oceanus,” (15[1])the “rock Leukas,” (-5[2])the “gates of the sun,” and the “land of dreams.” (-5[1])In Book 24 of the Odyssey, a man strides off over this location after rejoicing to hear his son did not cry or turn pale and earlier declares (-5[1])he would rather be a poor laborer on (*) earth than “lord over all the dead.” In this part of the Underworld, Homer described the gibbering suitors of Penelope encountering Agamemnon and Achilles, while Menelaus alone was granted Elysium. For 10 points, name this part of the Underworld covered with its namesake grey plant. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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