Also called "The Apparition of the Departed Souls" From the Odyssey Book 6 part 11 36-39 Inscribed with an extract in Greek which John Christian translated as follows:- "Then there gathered out of Erebus the spirits of those that are dead, brides and unwedded youths, and toil-worn old men and tender maidens yet new to sorrow." "In 1878 Mary Drew considered commissioning Burne-Jones to design a stained glass window for Gladstone's study. The artist wrote "And then as to the subject. I will do just what you like, but if it's Homer you chose, it may disgust him if it's treated unclassically and the heavy lead lines that enclose all bits of glass are so against the display of form that he might grow to hate it. .. either Homer or Dante would be best.... Would you like where Virgil shows Dante the ancient people and Homer amongst them?" March 29 1878, from (Some Hawarden letters, March-Phillipps and Christian, London 1917) Gladstone's translation of Homer was published in 1878, having spent a lifetime on Homeric studies.