The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero |
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THE ADAPTABILITY OF MYTHICAL FIGURES | 1 |
THE GRANDSON OF AUTOLYCUS | 8 |
THE FAVOURITE OF ATHENE | 25 |
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Achilles Achilles's admiration adventures Aeneas Agamemnon Ajax Ajax's allegorical anti-Homeric anti-Ulyssean Athene Athene's attitude Autolycan Autolycus Bloom CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Calypso career century chapter character Circe classical cleverness companions conception of Ulysses contrast Cyclops Dante Dante's death Dedalus described Dictys Diomedes emphasized epic ethical Euripides Euripides's father favour feelings figure Greek Hector Hecuba Helen hero heroic Homer Homer's Odysseus Homeric poems honour human Iliad implies incident influence James Joyce Joyce Joyce's Kazantzakis later tradition Latin literary literature medieval modern moral moralistic myth Nausicaa Neoptolemus Odyssean Odysseus Odysseus's Ovid Palamedes Pascoli's passion Penelope perhaps Phaeacians Philoctetes Pindar play poet political portrait of Ulysses post-Homeric prudence qualities references remarks Renaissance Roman scene seems Shakespeare Sirens Sophocles Sophocles's spirit Stoic story Suitors symbol Telegonus Telemachus Tennyson tion Troades Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy tale Ulyssean Ulysses theme Ulysses tradition Ulysses's UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Virgil wanderings words writers