odyssey

Declining to use his real name out of fear of reprisal, Ibrahim describes a dark and gruesome odyssey.

The casting of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII is shaping up to be it's own, multi-installment odyssey.

He was bidding a final farewell to the 9/11 nightmare and the odyssey to kill Osama bin Laden.

One refugee remembers the chaos of the day and her long odyssey to freedom.

All the motor skills are gone, so it feels like his personal Odyssey as he struggles over every inch.

The other great Greek poem, the Odyssey, has given us the name of one of its characters for a fairly common English word.

Homer (Odyssey, v. 390) speaks of “the fair-tressed Dawn,” εὐπλόκαμος Ἠώς.

The hero of The Odyssey was, self-confessedly, no tyro, but was himself “in artifice well framed and in imposture various”.

What an Odyssey of adventures he would149 have to relate when he reached home!

Yet the alleged late compiler of the Odyssey, in the seventh century, never wanders thus from the Homeric standard in taste.