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Is there any deeper reason as to why Joyce chose the Latin name for Odysseus when he titled Ulysses?

I only learned recently that Ulysses is the Latin version of the Greek name Odysseus. It made me wonder why Joyce chose it over the Greek for his novel Ulysses. Apparently there's a very prosaic ...
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