... , learns from a prophecy that he will take a final sea voyage after killing the suitors of his wife Penelope. The details of this sea voyage are described by Dante in Canto XXVl of the Inferno: Ulysses finds he is restless in Ithaca and driven by "the longing I had to gain experience of the world." Since Ulysses re-emerges so often in western history, he becomes a medium to express ... the beliefs each culture, what with Odysseus written during ancient times, Dante's Italian version from medieval times, and Tennyson's from ... is not for him, but for his son (ll. 30-33 & ll. 39-43). Aga...

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