How To Use Odysseus In A Sentence

  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • Partly it is this notion of the sublime returning to the domestic to shatter it, as in that moment when Odysseus reveals himself, less a man-of-war as he fires his arrows out into the crowd of suitors, more a terrorist or an exile returned, as Dionysus in Thebes. On the Sublime
  • He also expresses hope that Odysseus will return home and avenge himself.
  • Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
  • Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
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  • Athena used the disguise of Mentor to advise and stand beside her beloved Odysseus.
  • ‡ In the Aeneid of Virgil, which was written in Latin, Odysseus is called Ulysses. Ulysses
  • Odysseus walked up to the cave with a goatskin full of wine.
  • Odysseus was a braggart and a poor winner who couldn't keep his big mouth shut and got punished by the gods for it.
  • In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE. A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus
  • And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • While this continues, the swineherd is leading Odysseus into the town.
  • Alcinous," answered Odysseus, "let not this fear trouble thee. Stories from the Odyssey
  • This is the island Odysseus keeps claiming he is from when he lies to his family and the swineherd.
  • Ah, would that I had the youth, as now I have the spirit, and were either the son of noble Odysseus or Odysseus’ very self, 1 straightway then might a stranger sever my head from off my neck, if I went not to the halls of Odysseus, son of Laertes, and made myself the bane of every man among them! Book XVI
  • Odysseus tries to take neither a bathe nor bedding, but she insists.
  • Zeus freed Odysseus from the nymph Calypso, who held him prisoner on her island, by sending Mercury with an order to Calypso herself.
  • Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope. SPLITTING
  • Odysseus had faltered then as he saw the scores of plague victims laid out in the megaron. Shield of Thunder
  • As Eumæus and Odysseus were resting at the spring, a servant from Odysseus’ house came along. Part II. Chapter X
  • The swineherd gives the bow to Odysseus and the suitors yell at him.
  • Laodamas encourages him to join the contest and Odysseus asks them why they want to challenge him.
  • `I feel like Odysseus escaped from the forge of the Cyclops. ANTI-ICE
  • Shipwrecks are a constant in this tale, being the main means of precipitating Pericles into his various adventures, like an especially unlucky Odysseus.
  • But there were no other hardships such as beset Odysseus, between the burning of Troy and his return to Ithaca, west of the land of Greece. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
  • The suitors, for good measure, also violate the code associated with feasting in other ways - by mistreating the servants in Odysseus's palace, and by their churlish treatment of Odysseus in disguise as a suppliant beggar.
  • Obama is steering his ship right between two rocky promontories, like Odysseus trying to navigate between the dangerous rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
  • So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
  • Eventually they were reconciled and Odysseus was restored as the leader of Ithaca.
  • ‘“Hardy art thou, Odysseus, of might beyond measure, and thy limbs are never weary; verily thou art fashioned all of iron, that sufferest not thy fellows, foredone with toil and drowsiness, to set foot on shore, where we might presently prepare us a good supper in this sea-girt island. Book XII
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.
  • Similarly, while Odysseus is presumably the protagonist (if it isn't the "translator"), many different versions of Odysseus, assuming many different roles, are presented in the 46 episodes comprising The Lost Books. Experimental Fiction
  • In this respect, Odysseus represents the male flight from domesticity and intimacy in quest of independence.
  • Odysseus knew him too and brushed away a tear.
  • His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Philoctetes from Lemnos and his cure, the coming to the war of Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
  • The special wine stored in Odysseus's palace against his return is described in approbatory fashion as ‘aged’; and the wine that Nestor brings out in honor of Telemachos is, we are told, 11 years old.
  • He emptied it with delight and demanded more, and Odysseus poured for him until finally a drunken sleep overcame him.
  • Though the Phaeacians ultimately give him provisions to continue on his way home, a poorly timed insult from the son of the Phaeacian king awakens Odysseus's competitive athletic spirit. Lapham's Quarterly: "Sing to Me of The Man..."
  • The blinded Cyclops at the cave exit feels the emerging animals, under whose bellies Odysseus and his followers are clinging.
  • Odysseus returned home/returned to his home after many years of travelling.
  • Therewith he spake to Hermes, his dear son: ‘Hermes, forasmuch as even in all else thou art our herald, tell unto the nymph of the braided tresses my unerring counsel, even the return of the patient Odysseus, how he is to come to his home, with no furtherance of gods or of mortal men. Book V
  • An example is Odysseus's journey that forms the narrative armature of the Odyssey.
  • And lets face it, Odysseus is everyone's favourite Trojan character, so the more to read along that tract the better. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
  • Odysseus through his continency and the ‘promptings66 of Hermes’ abstained from touching them immoderately, and by the same token did not turn into Memorabilia
  • He calls to the lords and asks them to add a tripod and a cauldron each to Odysseus' treasures.
  • But I sense the callowness of pure Romanticism in such a rejection of restraint -- as coded into Odysseus's hood, into his arrival in disguise, as a beggar. Archive 2010-03-01
  • Odysseus explains that the Greek soldiers will not hold their positions if they see their captains preparing the ships for flight.
  • For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • She tells him that Odysseus will not come back and calls her maids in to bathe the beggar and give him finer clothing.
  • Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.
  • Athena used the disguise of Mentor to advise and stand beside her beloved Odysseus.
  • But the great-hearted Odysseus he found not within; for he sat weeping on the shore, racking his soul with tears and groans and griefs, and he would look over the unresting sea, shedding tears.
  • “The preliterate, meet the postliterate,” continued Savi, opening her hand as if introducing Odysseus to the other four. Ilium
  • Whether it were really Odysseus or not, I am afeard. Rhesus
  • During his subsequent wanderings, Odysseus is dipped repeatedly back into the condition of the obscured.
  • We may accompany Odysseus from the victory at Troy, over his different stations on his way home, as well as we become more closely acquainted with Telemachus on his different expeditions and with Penelope in her difficult position in Ithaca. A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite: Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel Literature Laureate
  • Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.
  • Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope. SPLITTING
  • His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • Here, exercising great patience and self - control, Odysseus tests the loyalty of his servants.
  • She bathes his feet and begins to move upward when Odysseus realizes that he has an old scar she will recognize.
  • Unlike Achilles, who enjoyed divine maternity, Odysseus is solely of human parentage.
  • Odysseus was the only one to survive Zeus' thunderbolt.
  • anyroad, just want to mention some molotov-related passings, of augie colon, "grandfather of hawaiian percussion" and the man behind the bird calls and jungle sounds of martin denny's "quiet village", and tau moe, the "odysseus of the hawaiian steel guitar scene" who comes up with these? they're awesome! Tales of the guambat.
  • Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus " craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope. SPLITTING
  • The Odyssey describes the return of the Greek hero Odysseus from the Trojan War.
  • With spare language taken principally from the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, and with intricate pencil and watercolor illustrations, Mr. Hinds re-creates Odysseus 'turbulent voyage across "the wine-dark sea" from the ruins of Troy to the island of Ithaca and his long-suffering wife, Penelope. Highbrow
  • Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song
  • Two gates there are for dreams," said Penelope to Odysseus after his ten years' wandering had ended. "One made for horn and one of for ivory.

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