Odysseanadj.
/ə(ʊ)ˈdɪsɪən/, /ɒˈdɪsɪən/, U.S. /əˈdisiən/, /oʊˈdisiən/ Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Odyssey, or of Odysseus; of the nature of an odyssey.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [adjective] > long or adventurous
Odysseana1711
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [adjective] > epic or heroic > specific epic poems
Odyssean1870
Iliadic1892
?1614 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Odysses Ep. Ded. sig. A3 v His all-sinewie Odyssæan hand.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo x, in Wks. (1721) III. 289 Odyssean risks upon the Main.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 131 The Iliads and Odyssean lines Of Homer in't were writ in golden shines.
1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 46 The piecers, who say that there were originally a number of Iliadic or Odyssean songs, afterwards made up into the poems such as we now have them.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 155 Even common sailors could not tell the story of their wanderings without rising to an almost Odyssean strain.
1892 A. M. Clerke Familiar Stud. Homer ii. 49 The poet does not appear to feel any need of bringing it into harmony with the Odyssean vision.
1912 J. Galsworthy Inn of Tranquility 3 Under a burning blue sky, among the pine trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of the Odyssean coast.
1987 Time (Nexis) 9 Nov. 96 Allie is mournfully ogling the food in restaurant windows..and discovering, at the end of her Odyssean trek, that she is ‘rich’.
2001 Sight & Sound Sept. 13/3 The standard Odyssean saga of an adventurer far from home in a world turned upside down.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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