[dmurray]

There's a companion book I enjoyed called Ulysses Unbound by Terence Killeen. It's quite terse: For each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses it gives a few pages of stylistic notes, a few on the Homeric parallels, a dramatis personae of the real people and events alluded to, and a translation of foreign terms.

I liked this style better than inline or footnoted annotations (except, perhaps, for the languages I can't read) as it encourages you to read and digest first, then get a second opinion from the annotator about what's going on.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1065953.Ulysses_Unbound