Question

Read the paraphrase.

Although I was sad to see my mother’s dead ghost, I didn’t speak with her because I needed to talk to a different ghost.

Which excerpt from The Odyssey - Teiresais is this paraphrasing?

Now came the soul of Antikleia, dead, my mother, daughter of Autolykos, dead now, though living still when I took ship for holy Troy.
Seeing this ghost I grieved, but held her off, through pang on pang of tears, till I should know the presence of Teiresias.
Soon from the dark that prince of Thebes came forward bearing a golden staff; and he addressed me
Great captain, a fair wind and the honey lights of home are all you seek.
But anguish lies ahead

Answer 1

That paraphrases the Nekyia (Book 11) of Homer's Odyssey — the scene in the Land of the Dead where Odysseus first meets the shade of his mother Anticleia and then Teiresias (Tiresias) arrives, bearing his staff and addresses Odysseus with his prophecy.