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Odyssey

Greek epic poem; the product of an oral tradition, it was probably written before 700 BC and is attributed to Homer. It describes the voyage home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy, and the vengeance he takes with his son Telemachus on the suitors of his wife Penelope on his return. During his ten-year wanderings, he encounters the Cyclops, the enchantress Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens.



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When I saw men thus employed I could hardly doubt that the writer of the " Odyssey " had seen others like them, and had them in her mind when describing the binding of Ulysses.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
His Margites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
The truth must have been that, all unversed in the arts of the wily Greek, the deceiver of gods, the lover of strange women, the evoker of bloodthirsty shades, I yet longed for the beginning of my own obscure Odyssey, which, as was proper for a modern, should unroll its wonders and terrors beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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