The conversation between Odysseus and the soothsayer Tiresias takes place in the Underworld. Tiresias reveals to him a difficult future filled with obstacles on his journey back to Ithaca, including the wrath of Poseidon, the creatures of Scylla and Charybdis, and the island of Helios’ oxen. The soothsayer gives Odysseus instructions for his journey and predicts that, despite the adversities, he will finally be able to return to his homeland.

In this piece, the underworld is represented, and the artist’s Cyclopean eye, a common theme in all his works, is again used.