Odyssey Definition & Meaning

Example Sentences

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Could two songs be more different than Steely Dan’s “Home at Last” and the Soggy Bottom Boys’ “I am a Man of Constant Sorrow”? Yet both are inspired by the “Odyssey” of Homer.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Odyssey” is not the first collaboration between Scott and Nolan.

From Los Angeles Times

Named the Magnavox Odyssey, the console setup included translucent overlays that players stuck on the TV screen to create colorful game boards, such as table tennis, roulette and haunted house.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Avengers: Doomsday” is on track to make one kajillion Marvel bucks, while Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was selling out theaters a year in advance when first tickets went on sale over the summer.

From Salon

Homer’s “The Odyssey” follows Odysseus, a Greek king trying to get home after the Trojan War, a journey interrupted by Cyclopes, sirens, shipwrecks and gods with grudges.

From Los Angeles Times