Joyce first encountered the figure of Odysseus/Ulysses in Charles Lamb's Adventures of Ulysses, an adaptation of the Odyssey for children, which seems to have established the Latin name in Joyce's mind. At school he wrote an essay on the character, titled "My Favourite Hero."[6][7] Joyce told Frank Budgen that he considered Ulysses the only all-round character in literature.[8] He considered writing another short story for Dubliners, to be titled “Ulysses” and based on a Dublin Jew named Alfred H. Hunter, a putative cuckold.[9] The idea grew from a story in 1906, to a "short book" in 1907,[10] to the vast novel he began in 1914.
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