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In Homer’s Odyssey, on which Joyce loosely models his Ulysses, Nestor is a much-respected, elderly man who counseled the Greeks during the siege of Troy. When Telemachus—Odysseus’s son and Stephen Dedalus’s counterpart— sails from Ithaca to search for news of his father, Nestor’s house is the first stop.
Stephen quizzes his classroom full of students about the Greek king Pyrrhus and thinks about the meaning of human history and memory. One of his students, Armstrong, thinks Stephen is talking about “a pier,” which Stephen jokes is just “a disappointed bridge.”
However, Homer uses Nestor as more than a counselor, and he uses Nestor's tales as more than a means to encourage the warriors to action. Nestor's tales enrich the epic with stories of the past that connect the past to the present and reveal a continuity of Greek life and hence Greek literature.
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Introduction. The focus of attention in the last chapter was Odysseus, whose adventures preserve a latent relation between “mind” and “return.” In this chapter I shall consider another Homeric figure, who by his very name— Néstōr —tightens the connection between the words nóos and néomai.
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Stephen begins by discussing the general Pyrrhus who led a campaign against the Romans, but was exhausted by his own victories.
