Ulysses

Family: Greeks · Role: prince of Ithaca · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III

Life events

Ulysses proposes sending Ajax against Hector instead of Achilles, and Nestor approves the strategy.(Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III)
- With: Nestor Ajax Hector Achilles
- “No, make a lott’ry; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Among ourselves Give him allowance for the better man; For that will physic the great Myrmidon, Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall His crest, that prouder than blue Iris bends. If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off, We’ll dress him up in voices; if he fail, Yet go we under our opinion still That we have better men.”
The Greek commanders resolve to assemble their forces and stand fast at Troy.(Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene III · 📍 Troy)
- With: Agamemnon Nestor Diomedes Ajax
- “Tomorrow We must with all our main of power stand fast”

allies with Nestor “Now, Ulysses, I begin to relish thy advice; / And I will give a taste thereof forthwith / To Agamemnon. Go we to him straight.”
allies with Agamemnon “Great Agamemnon, / This chaos, when degree is suffocate, / Follows the choking.”
liege: Agamemnon “Agamemnon, / Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, / Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit / In whom the tempers and the minds of all / Should be shut up—hear what Ulysses speaks.”

with Achilles (Ulysses is described as exercising controlling influence over Achilles.) “There’s Ulysses and old Nestor—whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes—yoke you like draught oxen, and make you plough up the wars.”
with Ajax (Ulysses is described as exercising controlling influence over Ajax.) “There’s Ulysses and old Nestor—whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes—yoke you like draught oxen, and make you plough up the wars.”

Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Made with Rho MD.