The journey to the Land of the Dead is an important part of the epic poem from Homer to Dante. Odysseus
goes to Hades, Aeneas goes to the Roman underworld (Orcus or Dis), and Dante goes to the Christian Hell in
the Inferno. Why do they go on these journeys? What do they find there? What do they learn? Who do they talk
to? (Confine your essay to Homer and Dante but also look up Virgil’s Aeneid.) How does the journey of Aeneas
to the underworld relate to the journeys of Odysseus (Ulysses) and Dante?
Finally, why is Ulysses (Odysseus) in Dante's Hell? What story does he tell? (See Canto 26) How does this
connect with Homer and the beginning of our course?
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