This is a list of characters from Ulysses by James Joyce. Principal characters Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of Zeno's Conscience. Molly Bloom, the wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not. Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus appears in Ulysses as the character who corresponds to Telemachus; less overtly, he embodies aspects of Hamlet. He is the protagonist of the first three chapters. Subsequently, Leopold Bloom is introduced, and Stephen's interactions with Bloom and his wife, Molly, form much of the final chapters' substance. Other characters Almidano Artifoni, an opera singer. Mrs. Yelverton Barry has been described as "one of the fantasized sadistic women of 'Circe who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances—in her case, of writing to her claiming to have observed her "peerless globes" in the Theatre Royal, and offered to send her a work of fiction by a Monsieur Paul de Kock. She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown. Mrs. Bellingham is one of the fantasized sadistic women of the "Circe" chapter who accuse Bloom in the courtroom scene of having made sexual advances—in her case, of sending her a letter asking her to "commit adultery at the earliest possible opportunity". She also features as a character in the play, Ulysses in Nighttown, and was played by Bernadette McKenna and Maire Ni Ghrainne at the Abbey Theatre. Richard Best is a character based on Celtic scholar Richard Irvine Best. Best was an acquaintance of J. M. Synge and Joyce. Best was depicted as one of the characters in the National Library scene in Episode 9 "Scylla and Charybdis". Best was known to have disapproved of Joyce's characterisation of him. Milly Bloom is Molly and Leopold's fifteen-year-old daughter, who does not actually appear