... S. Bache-Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. 3 ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a ... ...Wiig 2009, authorized by the Author. 3 ANTONIO MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a new way of... ...ons. The first is, when does the voyage of the light that departs from a star end? Can there be a return to the point of departure if the star th... ...t be developed as well (see A.M. “La vita * see Mercurio and Ciapini: “From the Myth of Oedipus to the Myth of Ulysses”, a... ...’s poem. When Homer speaks of Helen’s beauty, of the beauty of Achilles’ weapons forged by Hephaestus, of Aphrodite’s beauty who betrays her lame ... ...beauty, contrary to the first Homer, who in the Iliad honors the beauty of weapons and of glorious death in battle. Homer is also saying, betwee... ..., with his hiccoughs, astutely makes Demodocus stop singing and he himself starts telling his own tormented story. His storytelling abilities are so... ...here he immediately falls to earth and goes to sleep. He wakes up the next morning, while not far from him Nausicaa’s servants play happily after ha... ...ook for the verses that I needed to illustrate my hypotheses. I also thank Antonio Scarcella, President of the Associazione Galassia {Galaxy Associa...