Ulysses chooses a modest reincarnation

Ulysses is chosen by Plato in the Myth of Er to illustrate wisdom through the renunciation of honors. After his death, the ancient heroes choose their future life among all those that are proposed. Ulysses presents himself last, having understood thanks to his travels the trap of vanity and the pursuit of power. He then sets his sights on the anonymous existence of a simple citizen, which the other suitors had totally disdained.