![]() ![]() ![]() Their exchanges center on Stephen's guilt about his mother's death: he had refused to kneel and pray at her deathbed. Stephen and Mulligan prepare to meet the day in the Martello tower they rent (a seaside fort built by Cromwell to enforce English rule in Ireland). Here, Stephen appears a sort of mentorless Telemachus. He journeys to Pylos to consult Nestor, and to Sparta to consult Menelaus, who reports that Odysseus is held on Calypso's island (Books. Disguised as Odysseus' loyal friend Mentor, Athena advises Telemachus, son of Odysseus, to set off in search of his father. While Odysseus is delayed in his return from the Trojan War, suitors besiege his wife Penelope and overrun his palace at Ithaca. The Martello Tower, Stephen's residence, 8 am. ![]() ![]() Stephen Dedalus, Malachi "Buck" Mulligan, Haines, elderly milklady, various bathers Stephen Dedalus, living in the Martello tower with the boisterous and flippant Malachi Mulligan after having been called back from Paris by the news of his mother's death, is champing against the bit of Ireland. Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, is mocked by the parasitic suitors of his mother Penelope, and sets out from Ithaca in search of his father, ten years absent after fighting in the Trojan wars. ![]()
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