Under the condition that the younger author or artist agrees to immerse themselves mnemonically in the world of the dead, to recognize beloved voices and shadows while conversing with them. This, after all, is what Nekyia means - a later word, derived from the Homeric word nekys, which means dead.

With this strange name to our ears, the Alexandrian philologists aptly titled the eleventh rhapsody, indicating its content and direction. Because, as Fanis Kakridis correctly notes, "Nekyia is the summoning, a ceremony through which the living call the dead to rise from the depths of Hades, to advise them on the future." The same is stated by Chronis Botsoglou.

The dead, the souls, and their shadows are referred to in the twenty-fourth rhapsody as the idols of those who have passed. Idolon generally refers to a likeness; here it is the image of a body that has grown weary and exhausted. Since 'to grow weary' means: to get tired, to struggle, creating something difficult. And this exhausting toil can sometimes be the accomplished life, which, testing the endurance of the song, undermines it. Henceforth remains its shadow, its likeness. As a nostalgia for the once living body.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]