odyssey

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He called the story A Space Odyssey.

Others have posited that an unresolved Oedipal conflict was at the root of his fatal odyssey.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: "It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers 'out of place' in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites."  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

It occurred to Phil that from the point of view of the birds, their still forms, obscured by canvas hoods, must have looked like lifeless debris. ... One day, nine or ten days into their odyssey, Louie felt something alight on his hood, and saw its shadow fall before him. It was an albatross.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

She gave me a piercing look, and I wondered if she had seen him on one of his odysseys.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

The minister from Great Britain had survived the odyssey with exemplary stoicism, shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room.  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

This crazy kidnapper (a. k. a. Ares) was the same man who had abducted me and two other adolescents in New York and brought us across country on a ten-day odyssey of terror.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

I had never dealt directly with people who felt their lives enriched by weekly odysseys to wrestling matches.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Water is Wide, 1972

And for the first time in years, he had someone with whom he could discuss the odyssey he'd been on since he first set foot in Korphe.  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006

I could not and neither can she, for when this odyssey began, this is how I began.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, 1996

In Schaller's own book, Stones of Silence, he confesses that his treks through the Karakoram, which he called "the most rugged range on earth," were, for him, spiritual odysseys as well as scientific expeditions.†  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006

The outskirts of Skardu, awash in pharing and starga, apricot and walnut orchards, announced that the odyssey along the Indus was over.  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006

But their odyssey comes to a humiliating halt.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

The Odyssey begins after the 10-year Trojan War (which was the subject of The Iliad).

I loved reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid; and I made some of the finest friends of my life....  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

With his Odyssean saga featured in newspapers, magazines, and radio shows, he was a national sensation.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero's journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace.  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

It was only later that I felt the loss-Fitzgerald's Odyssey, Wu's Final March, and a score of other epics which had survived my stroke now were shredded like cloud fragments in a high wind.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The words were no sooner out of my mouth than I saw that I had made another mistake; and I felt really annoyed with myself, as I did not want to go into a long explanation just then, or begin another series of Odyssean lies.†  (source) William Morris, News from Nowhere, 1890

I'd sit in the chair and read to him from various paperbacks I'd bring in, stuff like The Odyssey or One Thousand and One Nights.  (source) Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, 2005

Andros read Homer's Odyssey, captivated by the images of powerful bronze men doing battle on these islands.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

As we now know, James Joyce envisioned every one of the eighteen episodes of the novel as a parallel to some incident or situation in The Odyssey.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.  (source) Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life, 2002

Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome, The full-fed swine return'd with evening home; Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties, With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries. -- Pope's Odyssey  (source) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1820

She put aside the thriller and the book about Alexander the Great, hesitated — and picked up the Odyssey.  (source) Cornelia Funke, Inkheart, 2003

Now her house had become a sanctuary for families fleeing the storm, and when Kathy's Odyssey pulled into the driveway there were already a dozen or more people there, all of them Muslims from New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

The Aeneid first tells Homer's Odyssey and then his Iliad.  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Similarly, perhaps, [Greek] in Odyssey iv.619, xv.119, and [Greek]...  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

Kathy was loading up a few small bags in the back of the Odyssey.  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

The words in both "Iliad" and "Odyssey" are [Greek].  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

It was probably the only one known in the Odyssean age.  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

In the Odyssey, she heard President Bush's weekly radio address.  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

The [Greek] in fact should no more be pressed than [Greek] as applied to islands, "Odyssey" xv.  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

408 [Greek] Surely the [Greek] of the Odyssean passage was due to the [Greek] of the "Iliad."  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

He has frequent interpolations of four or six lines; and I remember one in the thirteenth book of the Odyssey, ver.  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

This is how Chapman translated The Iliad (first in 1598), though he turned in his Odyssey (1614) to rhymed decasyllabic couplets.  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

[Greek] The Odyssean lines are— [Greek] Endnote 28: Reading [Greek] for [Greek], cf.  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

If he had just gotten in the Odyssey with them!  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009