"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves."
- James Joyce, Ulysses
Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce tells the story of it's three central characters-Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertisement salesman; Bloom's wife, Molly, a sensual and independent woman; and Stephen Dedalus, an arrogant young intellectual taken by Bloom under his wing-the modern equivalents of Ulysses (Odysseus), Penelope and Telemachus, respectively, from Homer's epic poem Odyssey. The book observes Leopold Bloom as he goes from place to place in Dublin from 8 a.m. until 3 a.m. on June 16, 1904. The events of the novel loosely resemble Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War in Homer's epic.
