In this series of posts, I examine the various versions of Odysseus/Ulysses that appear in the classical texts of the Greeks and Romans in an attempt to create a clear picture of who Odysseus really is. Most of the content in this series was written in February of 2013, as part of an assignment for a advanced literature course at Santa Clara University called Classical Mythology in the Western Tradition. In this class, we traced two major mythological figures, Odysseus and Helen, through the western literary tradition, from the ancient days to their modern incarnations.
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Ulysses in the Aeneid: Dishonest Greek and Sacker of Troy
The Aeneid of Virgil takes a very direct view of Ulysses: he is, in the eyes of Aeneas, a tricky Greek bastard whose cunning trap of the Trojan Horse leads to the fall of Troy.
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