Click  on Joyce's droodle

Before we learn about the marble bust, here is Leopold Bloom.  Joyce drew this caricature of the hero of Ulysses, in Myron C. Nutting's studio in Paris in the 1920s.  Above it, Joyce wrote in Greek the line with which Homer's Odyssey begins. 

Classical scholar Thomas E. McGraw of Phillips Academy translates:

 Sing through me, Muse,
 and through me spin the tale of that man
 skilled in all ways of contending...