"But tell me about yourself and spare me nothing.
What form of death overcame you, what laid you low,
some long slow illness? Or did Artemis showering arrows
come with her painless shafts and bring you down?
Tell me of father, tell of the son I left behind:
…Please, tell me about my wife, her turn of mine,
her thoughts."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 11, lines 193-197, 201-202. Odysseus meets the ghost of his mother Anticleia in the underworld. He wants to know all about the family he hasn’t laid eyes on since he sailed for Troy many years ago. He inquires about the cause of his mother’s death, asks about his father, son and wife Penelope.