very far from right?

_a._ The first of these mothers to appear is Anticleia, the mother
of the Hero Ulysses, of the Hero who has made this remarkable
voyage to the world beyond, of its kind the supreme heroic act done
by a living mortal. She, however, belongs to the immediate Past,
and thus corresponds to the man, Elpenor, in the previous section,
though she of course has been buried. Note, therefore, this mark of
symmetrical structure.

It is the beautiful instinct of the mother, that she flits in the
ghost-world to her son at once, when the chance is afforded. She
has already appeared, even before Tiresias came; now she is the
first after that prophet, who gives directions to Ulysses
supplicating: "Tell me, O Prophet, how shall my mother recognize me
as her son." Ulysses learns much from her about Ithaca, especially
about his father Laertes, who now never goes to the town but stays
in the fields, "with a great sorrow in his heart, desiring thy
return, while old age weighs hard upon him." Such is the father,
still living, whom Ulysses may yet see.

The mother died from longing for her son and "the memory of his
gentleness;" still her longing brings her to him in the life
beyond. The great revelation is concerning the future state: the
soul is immortal, this fact Ulysses is to tell in Phaeacia. The
strong desire to behold the loved ones who have passed away is
indeed the impulse; but they too return, though insubstantial. It
is the primary groundwork of faith in immortality--this feeling of
the domestic relation affirming that it is eternal and cannot be
broken by death. Still the mother is but a ghost and cannot be
embraced; this the son has to accept, though he would have her in
flesh and blood.

_b._ At once there is the transition to the famous mothers of
legend--"wives and daughters of Heroes" says the poet, with, an eye
to his audience, which has men in it also, so he does not mention
mothers, though they are the burden of his strain. Here follows a
Catalogue of Women, giving them their due place in the genealogy
and destiny of distinguished houses. Three groups of these mothers
we may distinguish.

First is the group of mortal women who were embraced by some god,
and gave birth to heroic offspring. Tyro met Neptune and brought
forth Pelias and Neleus; from