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odysseus
/oʊˈdɪsiəs/
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What does odysseus mean?
proper noun
- A male given name from Ancient Greek.
- The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad, and protagonist of the Odyssey.
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/oʊˈdɪsiəs/
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There came also the soul of Odysseus having yet to make a choice, and his lot happened to be the last of them all.
(Ibid.) In like manner, Odysseus found the land of the dead in the ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
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He was here either to get things out of the sea, or to write upon the probable course of Odysseus, for Greek after all was his hobby.
Dante's terza rima is a bow of Odysseus which weaker mortals cannot bend with any amount of tugging, and which Mr. Longfellow has judiciously refrained from trying to bend.
He loved his virtues to be practical, his heroes to be great eaters of beef; he loved the jovial Heracles, loved the astute Odysseus; not the Robespierres and Wesleys.