Describe your reaction to the way Dante envisioned the ending days of Ulysses in comparison to the conclusion of Homer’s the Odyssey.
-Did it make sense to you?
-What is the overall message, in your opinion, in Dante’s decision to revise the ending of the Odyssey?
-And what is the overall message of Ulysses’ own account about his death?
To fully respond to this topic please make sure you know the answers to the following questions:
-Where exactly do we find Odysseus in Inferno and why is he there?
-What is the difference between Odysseus and Ulysses?
-What distinguishes Dante’s medieval time from Homer’s Archaic period?
-What does Ulysses mean when he tells his comrades “Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”?
