I. Homer : 1. What's in a name ; 2. From Daedalus to Dedalus ; 3. Ogygia ; 4. Ulyssess' last voyage ; Ulysses redivivus -- II. Shakespeare : 1. Unnatural murder ; 2. Two ghosts in Hamlet ; 3. Some versions of Hamlet ; 4. Spacetime ; 5. Cerebral mating -- III. Joyce : 1. Aesthetics without aesthetes ; 2. Guerilla warfare ; 3. Political antecedents ; 4. Beyond Parnell ; 5. The politics of aesthetics.