Dedalus, Simon. Stephen Dedalus’s father, modeled on Joyce’s father, John Joyce. Simon Dedalus has a great sense of humor and a much-admired singing voice, but his drinking has steadily, over a long period of time, destroyed the family’s finances. His children have been neglected since his wife May died. He appears in Hades, Aeolus, Wandering Rocks, Sirens, and Circe; mentioned in Telemachus, Proteus, Calypso, Lestrygonians, Scylla & Charybdis, Nausicaa, Oxen of the Sun, Eumaeus, Ithaca, and Penelope.