... speech shortly after returning to the island of Ithaca, and shortly before boarding for his final voyage. Homer's Ulysses, as described in Scroll Xl of the Odyssey, 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 ...

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