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odyssey
/ˈɑ.dɪ.si/
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What does odyssey mean?
noun
- An extended adventurous voyage, usually in search of home.
- An intellectual or spiritual quest.
proper noun
- An Ancient Greek epic poem, ascribed to Homer, which depicts the journey of Odysseus back to Ithaca after the fall of Troy.
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I pored over the Odyssey as over a story-book, hoping and fearing for the hero whom yet I partly scorned.
It was Homer’s requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.
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Helene Jegado's past was inquired into, and a strange and dreadful Odyssey the last twenty years of her life proved to be.
Your little eight-hour night would become an Odyssey and you a Homer.
And in this double form he has cast the entire narrative of the events which occurred at Troy and in Ithaca and throughout the Odyssey.