Sculpture of Ulysses, Greek, 2nd century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale Sperlonga, courtesy of Wikipedia
In Canto XXIII, Dante alludes to one of Aesop's fables, "The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk." Think about how Dante uses this reference...who, if anyone, do we sympathize with in this story?
We will also look at connections to Ulysses, namely Tennyson's poem, and the ending of Homer's epic The Odyssey. We'll leave the intricacies of James Joyce's Ulysses to other scholars, but we may go popular culture and explore references in The Simpsons and the Coen Brothers' film O Brother Where Art Thou.
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