Index — All Eighteen

The episodes of Ulysses.

Each card gives you the basics: where, when, who Homer thought it was, what happens, and what to listen for. Read them in order, or dip in.

6 of 18 episodes

Early twentieth-century photograph of 7 Eccles Street
IV. Calypso8:00 AM

7 Eccles Street

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.

Leopold Bloom arrives. He cooks a kidney for breakfast, feeds the cat, brings Molly her post — including a letter from Blazes Boylan — and quietly senses what's coming.

HomericCalypsoStyleMature narrative
SexualityExileIdentity
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Westland Row & Lincoln Place
V. Lotus Eaters10:00 AM

Westland Row & Lincoln Place

Bath. Cleanse from drugs of the day.

Bloom drifts through the city, picks up a flirtatious letter under a false name, watches Mass, and ends in the warm narcotic of a public bath.

HomericLotus EatersStyleNarcissism
ReligionSexualityExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Glasnevin Cemetery
VI. Hades11:00 AM

Glasnevin Cemetery

How many! All these here once walked round Dublin.

Bloom rides in a funeral carriage to the burial of Paddy Dignam, reflecting on death, his lost son Rudy, and his father's suicide.

HomericHadesStyleIncubism
MemoryReligionExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Ormond Hotel bar
XI. Sirens4:00 PM

Ormond Hotel bar

Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing.

A chapter written like music. Bloom eats dinner alone as barmaids flirt and Simon Dedalus sings, while Boylan rides off to meet Molly.

HomericSirensStyleFuga per canonem (music)
SexualityMemoryExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Barney Kiernan's pub
XII. Cyclops5:00 PM

Barney Kiernan's pub

I was just passing the time of day with old Troy of the D. M. P.

An unnamed cynic narrates Bloom's run-in with a violent nationalist known as the Citizen, interrupted by grand parodies. It ends with a thrown biscuit tin.

HomericCyclopsStyleGigantism / parody
NationalismIdentityExile
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Early twentieth-century photograph of Cabman's shelter, near Butt Bridge
XVI. Eumaeus1:00 AM

Cabman's shelter, near Butt Bridge

Preparatory to anything else…

Exhausted, Bloom takes Stephen for coffee in a late-night shelter. The tired prose drifts as the two finally talk, sort of, beside a dubious sailor.

HomericEumaeusStyleTired, relaxed prose
ExileIdentityMemory
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