# Ulysses — Heretics character guide

> Ulysses in Heretics by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** the real Ulysses

**First appearance:** 0001-heretics

## Who they are

The Greek hero Odysseus, used as a symbol of adventure and cunning.

## In the story

### [III: On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/heretics_se/chapters/iii-on-mr-rudyard-kipling-and-making-the-world-small)

Used as a figure who knew many lands but still lacked patriotism.

### [XII: Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/heretics_se/chapters/xii-paganism-and-mr-lowes-dickinson)

Chesterton contrasts Tennyson's Christianized Ulysses with the real Ulysses, who desired to get home, not to wander.

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