Both Uses of
odyssey
in
Ivanhoe
- 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 OdysseyChpt 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 XXIChpt 4Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten year circuitous and eventful journey home
Definitions:
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(1)
(odyssey as in: her odyssey from Mexico to Texas) long eventful journey
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(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)
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.