person
Ulysses
The cunning Greek leader (Odysseus), lord of Ithaca, 'the Ithacan' and 'lord of the Cephallenians'; he extracts Astyanax from hiding by playing on Andromache's fear, and is allotted Hecuba.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §533 Ulysses
Odysseus, the cunning Greek captain.
- On the Shortness of Life §13.2 Ulysses
The Homeric hero (Odysseus); the number of his oarsmen is Seneca's specimen of useless erudition.
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §2.1 Ulysses
The hero of Homer's Odyssey, whom the Stoics claimed, with Hercules, as a model of the sage unconquered by toils and pleasures.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.27.5 Ulysses
The Greek hero of Homer's Odyssey (Greek Odysseus), proverbial for cunning and endurance; one of the household names Sabinus could not remember.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.31.2 Ulysses
The Greek hero Odysseus; in Homer's Odyssey he stops his crew's ears with wax against the Sirens' song while having himself bound to the mast. Seneca turns the image to the seductive voices of the crowd, which require a still stronger stopping.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.66.26 Ulysses
Odysseus (Latin Ulixes), king of the rocky island of Ithaca; in Homer he longs for his poor homeland over Calypso's immortality --- proof that one loves a country because it is one's own, not because it is grand.
- The Trojan Women §28 Ithacan
Ulysses (Odysseus), lord of Ithaca; here the 'wary Ithacan' who might have set the fires.