What books do i need to read to understand all of Ulysses? All

You don't need any. Ulysses will help you understand all the other books rather than the other way round.

Well, you could go either 2 ways: you could just pick up a book that analyses the content or you could spend years reading philosophy and similar works.

>>9062767
Yeah i kinda meant before reading Ulysses. Like as i'm reading it i'm already understanding the references.

>>9062779
You won't, unless you're an Irish scholar. There are too many references to Dublin pop culture, Irish politics at the time, and Irish history.

Best you can do is get an Annotated Edition.

>>9062779
If you're looking for a basis, bc you won't get them all; the Bible and the Greeks

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>>9062759
>all of Ulysses
even if you literally read all of western cannon and lived in sandycove you wouldn't understand all of it. There was only one person who understood all of it.

also

necessary
>iliad > odissey > hamlet > portrait > ulysses

ideal
>bible, divine comedy