 Joyce referred to the episodes by their Homeric titles in his letters.He took the idiosyncratic rendering of some of the titles (e.g., "Nausikaa" and the "Telemachiad") from Victor Bérard's two-volume "Les Phéniciens et l'Odyssée", which he consulted in 1918 in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.While Joyce's novel takes place during one ordinary day in early 20th-century Dublin, in Homer's epic, Odysseus, "a Greek hero of the Trojan War ... took ten years to find his way from Troy to his home on the island of Ithaca".