"Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero[1] of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and an important character in Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. In Stephen Hero, an early version of what became Portrait, Stephen's surname is spelled 'Daedalus' in more precise allusion to Daedalus, the architect in Greek myth who was contracted by King Minos to build the Labyrinth in which he would imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. Buck Mulligan makes reference to the mythological namesake in Ulysses, telling Stephen, 'Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!' In revising the mammoth Stephen Hero into the considerably more compact Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce shortened the name to 'Dedalus'. ..."
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: An Introduction
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