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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Odyssey (Ancient Greek epic poem by Homer).

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Examples

  • But that occurs in an "Odyssean" Book of the _Iliad_, Book

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • The Achilles of the _Iliad_ hates a liar "like the gates of Hades"; but he says so in an "Odyssean"

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • If Iris, in "Odyssean" times, had resigned office and been succeeded by Hermes, why did Achilles pray, not to Hermes, but to Iris?

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • Now, according to Paul Cauer, as we shall see, other "Odyssean" poets were living in an age of changed law, later than that of the author of the lay of Demodocus.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • "Odyssean" Book, but here Iris goes on her messages (XXIII.

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • Many would nominate "Ironweed" (1983), that lyrical and redemptive novel about the Odyssean homecoming of Francis Phelan after 20 years of alcoholic vagabondage, a book that touched the zeitgeist (and won a Pulitzer) at a time of intense concern about homelessness.

    Corruption on the Hudson Sam Sacks 2011

  • That's the premise of Date Night, opening in April and starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell as a bored married couple whose efforts to be people they're not — for at least one glamorous night — lead to a real case of mistaken identity, a Mob effort to kill them and an Odyssean getaway through New York City's nightscape.

    First look: 'Date Night' rekindles love and laughs in marriage 2009

  • That this is punk rock music (confession: a genre that I know more from its Lou Reed and Nico side than its commercial Green Day side) is almost irrelevant, as the by now classical tropes of this Odyssean journey have been well worn by other rock musicals like Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent and even the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland let's-put-on-a-show movies that graced our (grand) parents 'childhoods.

    Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: American Idiot: Does It Speak Across Generations? 2010

  • That this is punk rock music (confession: a genre that I know more from its Lou Reed and Nico side than its commercial Green Day side) is almost irrelevant, as the by now classical tropes of this Odyssean journey have been well worn by other rock musicals like Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent and even the Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland let's-put-on-a-show movies that graced our (grand) parents 'childhoods.

    Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: American Idiot : Does It Speak Across Generations? 2010

  • Ehrlich was the Northern California attorney for poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Howl's" publisher, who faced a six-month jail sentence for daring to print Ginsberg's sexually explicit, Odyssean poem.

    Jane Ganahl: Jon Hamm on the Set of Howl Jane Ganahl 2010

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