Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? – WS, Henry the Fourth, Part I, Act3 Scene2, 53-55.
For the paranormal dabblings of Charles and Anna Fort, cf. Steinmeyer’s biography, pp133, 161-2, 276-7.
The narrator of Lucian’s comic sci-fi novella, , confronts Homer in the Elysian Fields and learns who actually composed the and . Hesiod claimed to have met the Muses of Mount Helicon. Parmenides was guided to his 55, 1971, 189-237.