Ulysses' vision of change concerning the Greek's fate in his time.

Ulysses stops his tale with the prophet of Thebes and asks his Phaeacian friends to be allowed to go to sleep. However the king and Queen urge Ulysses to continue his tale. The pause seems to synmbolise that Ulysses had imparted the full lesson concerning the past of the Greeks and how the older Greeks broke their backs to become what only a prophet like Tiresias could foresee. The queen and King ask if Ulysses saw any other people from the battle of troy.
Ulysses describes his adventure concerning said heroes and people of the time of troy.
I will analyses this further next week and let you think about his descriptions with this in mind: the people depicted represent the old decaying archetypes of the old Greece that broke its back to be born a new as what Ulysses represents and embodies as a paradigm. The old is buried and gone and desires to be fully buried. The new is a prophets divine dream made concrete still manifesting into the future as a message for a messenger like a spring or as the ancient Greeks say an Er to the decay of the winter of the decay caused by troy and the victory that unleashed the new wondering of the newly formed Greeks of Ulysses time.
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This is also Ulysses vision in his descent or as the Greeks call it "Katebasis" during the Hades ritual of communing with the dead.

"He relates his encounters there: he meets Agamemnon, who tells him of his murder at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. Next he meets Achilles, who asks about his son, Neoptolemus. Odysseus then tries to speak with Ajax, an Achaean who killed himself after he lost a contest with Odysseus over the arms of Achilles, but Ajax refuses to speak and slips away. He sees Heracles, King Minos, the hunter Orion, and others. He witnesses the punishment of Sisyphus, struggling eternally to push a boulder over a hill only to have it roll back down whenever it reaches the top. He then sees Tantalus, agonized by hunger and thirst. Tantalus sits in a pool of water overhung by bunches of grapes, but whenever he reaches for the grapes, they rise out of grasp, and whenever he bends down to drink, the water sinks out of reach. Odysseus soon finds himself mobbed by souls wishing to ask about their relatives in the world above. He becomes frightened, runs back to his ship, and immediately sails away." from http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/section6.rhtml