Definition of Odyssey

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Definition of Odyssey
	Odyssey An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy. Related Definitions: After, An, Attributed, Epic, Homer, Of, Poem, Return, Siege, The, To, Troy, Which

Odyssey Quotations

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret Atwood

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.
Kiefer Sutherland

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Robert Fitzgerald

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Dwight Yoakam

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew Wiles

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
Raymond Queneau

Odyssey Translations

Odyssey in Dutch is Odyssee
odyssey in German is Irrfahrt
odyssey in Italian is peregrinazione

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