Ulysses
mythological figure · 9 works · 17 mentions · 21 anchored passages
glory of the Argives · that wisest man of Greece
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Homeric hero invoked as an example of guarding oneself against seductive but dangerous voices.
These voices are no otherwise to be shunned than those past which Ulysses was unwilling to be carried save bound.
you need a stouter stopping than that with which Ulysses is said to have used among his comrades.
His memory was so bad that now the name of Ulysses would slip from him, now that of Achilles, now of Priam, men whom we know as well as our own tutors.
Tusculan Disputations
Greek hero renowned for cunning, whom Socrates wishes to question in the afterlife.
I should test, too, the wisdom of the highest king who led the great hosts to Troy, and of Ulysses and Sisyphus;
In the Niptra that wisest man of Greece does not lament excessively at his wound, or rather only moderately:
\"You too, Ulysses, though we see you grievously struck, are almost too soft of soul, you who, wont to spend your days in arms\" — the wise poet understands that the habit of bearing pain is no contemptible teacher.
On the Nature of the Gods
Homeric hero given divine companions in crises
This reasoning impelled the poets, and most of all Homer, to attach to the chief of the heroes — Ulysses, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilles — certain gods as companions of their crises and dangers.
whom yet Homer makes to be met among the dead by Ulysses, like the rest who had departed life.
Ancient Law
Homeric hero whose relation to his father Laertes illustrates the limits of patriarchal power.
but the relations of Ulysses and Laertes in the Odyssey appear to show that, where extraordinary valour and sagacity were united in the son, the father in the decrepitude of age was deposed from the headship of the family.
In the Homeric literature, for instance, the deceitful cunning of Ulysses appears as a virtue of the same rank with the prudence of Nestor, the constancy of Hector, and the gallantry of Achilles.
On Moral Ends
Homeric hero, addressed by the Sirens in the quoted song as the one who would be captivated by their promise of knowledge.
'O glory of the Argives, why dost thou not turn thy ship, Ulysses, that thou mayest learn our songs with thine ears!
The Rights of War and Peace
Homeric hero cited as the model of praiseworthy military cunning.
For Homer commends his hero, Ulysses, no less for his ability in military stratagem, than for his wisdom.
On the Shortness of Life
Legendary Greek hero, referenced in the mocked antiquarian dispute about the number of his rowers.
It was a disease of the Greeks to inquire what number of rowers Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written first, and besides whether they were by the same author, and other matters of this stamp;
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Legendary Greek hero cited as one of the earlier models offered to humanity of the wise man, deemed less sure than Cato.
for no wise man can suffer either injury or insult, and the immortal gods have given us in Cato a surer model of the wise man than they gave in Ulysses and Hercules to earlier ages.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Legendary Homeric hero said to have sailed through the strait called Charybdis.
and is the Charybdis, so called, through which Ulysses is said to have sailed.