![]() It is Diomedes who is silent and - but above all the focus of the canto falls on the greatness of this hero. The two brothers, who are enemies, the enemies-brothers, and therefore the tragic history, the tragic knot of Theban mythology. So he’s discussing through Eteocles and Polyneices the whole story of Thebes. You remember that we saw Eteocles and Polyneices, that clearly for Dante is - the knowledge of which is filtered through a Greek Roman poet, Statius, who was born and lived in a Greek Roman city, Naples. The overarching theme is the reading of the Greek world. Let me continue with this overarching theme. Ulysses, the polytropic intelligence of classic antiquity, the crafty mind is - he appears as a philosopher, but also as a rhetorician and this is exactly that kind of complicity between the two modes that Dante wants to explore. Around Ulysses - Ulysses is - appears in Canto XXVI with Diomedes who is silent. The overarching question of my remarks - and your questions actually took my remarks in a different and sometimes deeper direction than I had intended - is the whole issue of Ulysses but around Ulysses, Dante’s reading of what we call the Hellenic world. Remember we are - we were saying a few things about Ulysses. ![]() ![]() Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta: We’ll continue the discussion we left open last time. Returning to Canto XXVI and Ulysses’s Sin ![]() Dante in Translation ITAL 310 - Lecture 8 - Inferno XXVI, XXVII, XXVIIIĬhapter 1. ![]()
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