Greek Restless Dead

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And the Greek and Roman dead returned for the same old reasons: the ghost of Patroclus came to Achilles to beg his burial, Odysseus called the pale shades up from the underworld with blood, the Furies hounded the blood-guilty, and at the Roman Lemuria the householder rose by night to placate the restless dead with offerings — as the Japanese welcome the returning ancestors home at Obon. The unresolved dead, East and West, asking the same thing. — Greco-Roman myth