This paper is in the nature of a caveat entered against one mode of interpretation to which Joyce's work has been subjected. Many literary works in our time have been hitched onto mythopoeic horses, but Ulysses has been rather worse handled than most, in this regard. My comments are directed against the uses to which have been put, by certain critics, mythopoeic references and allusions in Joyce's novel. The problem has not to do with whether Ulysses employs symbols, for it obviously does, but rather with the character of their employment.