In Homer's epic Greek poem, The Odyssey, Odysseus is lost in his travels at war and at sea for the better part of twenty years, enduring setback after setback on his journey home. He battles strange and violent creatures, endures storms and shipwrecks, loses his entire crew and generally endures every insult to body and mind one can survive.

In Ulysses we follow the path of our main protagonists through Dublin (moonlighting as the trials and travails that Odysseus followed in The Odyssey) with Le...