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Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey, spends 20 years traveling home from the Trojan War. He has astonishing adventures and learns a great deal about himself and the world; he even descends to the underworld to talk to the dead. Thus, an odyssey is any long, complicated journey, often a quest for a goal, and may be a spiritual or psychological journey as well as an actual voyage.
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 20 June 2024
Advertisement In early May, near the end of their 30-day odyssey, USC’s staff sat on the front porch of the rental in Manhattan Beach, when Musselman got a call.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
And so his odyssey eventually brings him right into the lair of the dragon.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 June 2024
The Traitors was often impossible to predict, an odyssey of human behavior as shaped by television conditioning and the knowledge that the cameras are always rolling.
—Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 June 2024
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“Odyssey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/odyssey. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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named for the Odyssey, a long poem from ancient Greece telling the story of the 10-year wanderings of Odysseus, a Greek hero and king
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