Antonio Pagliaro,
Thank you so much for the Scott citation, which seems to be right on target.
That Dante never read Homer is mentioned very often. And of course it's
unhelpful when Dante's Ulysses is so obviously a recasting of Homer's
Ulysses, taken from some secondary source if not from Homer directly. As in
the excerpt you sent, Ovid seems a good candidate as that secondary source,
especially since Dante's Ulysses mentions only the two adventures, the Circe
episode and the last voyage.
I was interested in Scott's translation that Ulysses death would "come off
the sea." If that means from the sea, it's quite different from that other
translation I think I've seen more often--that Ulysses would die far from the
sea.
Thank you again.
pat sloane
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