Dante incorporates Ulysses and diomedes in canto 26, the two heroes from the trojan war. asking Virgil who is under the flame that was split into two. they both fought together in the Trojan war and stole the citys palladium (religious object ). its significance as it is one of the two most important epics in the western tradition with the odyssey. by incorporating these two heroes into the hell he asserts the preeminence of gods moral over the morality of the ancient greeks.