Ciclones and the folly of Ismarus and the folly at ciclones

ISMARUS
Yes; you just follow the coastline of the Aegean towards Thrace, keeping land always in sight to starboard. You see the rich lands of the Cicones and the city of Ismarus on your right.
From http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/odyssey/od01.htm
Check this site out it is way cool

Ismarus was near troy as it sits near the Dardanelles. The Trojans and all others using the straights had to pass by the island and lands of the Cicones.
They are rich people
Ulysses is part of the Greeks that attack and pillage the peoples of the island, killing the males and dividing the spoils of women and treasure amongst them, the surviving Cicones go for help and return in such numbers the Greeks run off with their tails between their legs. Ulysses loses 72 men and neither condemns the action of the other Greeks nor takes part in their pillaging though he suffers the loses of the counter attack as he and his men try to retreat. Their sails tear as they live and the waves not wind drives them, they lose the power of their sails or if you will engine. This was not a powered journey, it was not empowered. The crew is further divided and ships too as more storms hit them. This represents the political, social and moral division of the Greeks over the issue, the Greeks that were of the barbaric bent and attacked were destroyed and separated form the divine Greeks represented by Ulysses.

Ulysses journey begins with a marriage and respect and wisdom of the equality of women. Book 9 seems to be another text of another persons journey and shows the reluctance of the real Greeks to do such evil and the desire to unify peacefully which is the only way to create a long lasting alliance represents Ulysses ascent and deification and represents the real spirit of the Greeks represented by him Although Ulysses is at Ismurus he reflects the real Greeks and the loss of his men the repercussion of the cleaving of the bad people who are part of his group of Greeks and the descent, though not good, people caught up in the battle. Ulysses at Calypso is the Greek spirit and representation that makes the Greeks great in that age. The folly of Ismurus is the Greeks Ulysses definitely does not represent or condom. They are the Greeks judged as inferior to the new age of Greece and for their evils are destroyed. Praise Zeus
Thus like Hercules Ulysses being a peaceful person unifies and allies the Greeks with the non Greeks.
No empire is great if built on violence, Great empires are built on peaceful co-existence.