Both Uses of "odyssey" in "Ivanhoe"

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Both Uses

odyssey
in
Ivanhoe
(Edited)

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
Chpt 1 *

Odyssey = Alexander Pope's translation of the epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC - attributed to Homer)
With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,
And the proud steer was on the marble spread;
With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,
Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.

Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat;
A trivet table and ignobler seat,
The Prince assigns--
-- Odyssey, Book XXI
Chpt 4

Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten year circuitous and eventful journey home

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(1) (odyssey as in: her odyssey from Mexico to Texas)
long eventful journey
(2) (The Odyssey as in: Homer's Odyssey)
epic poem (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Odyssey is used as a name of many things because of the importance of the poem in Western culture.