Usage examples of "odyssean".
And when Penelope and Odysseus are about to go upstairs to their first night in twenty years, the house is sounding with the guileful music of a pretended wedding, a truly Odyssean accompaniment.
So for all the major odyssean adventures there is a this-worldly incident as underpinning, taken from the inventory of reports likely to be given by ordinary, unimaginative merchant-pirates of the Mediterranean sea.
The inclination of modern critics to emphasize the unique aspect of Odyssean heroism at the expense and often to the exclusion of the recognizably Achillean aspects of the heroic vengeance that concludes the epic is paralleled by a tendency to find new developments on Olympus, in the nature and action of the gods, especially of Zeus.
My hope has been that each turn in the verse might mark a fresh beginning, moving toward a fresh conclusion, turning and returning, like a version in minuscule of a familiar Odyssean rhythm.
Fran already fading as the excitement of what lay before him intensified and spread itself out in his mind, exposing to his mental light all the ramifications and historical aspects of his one-man Odyssean undertaking.
Fuller Maitland, whom he was to accompany over the Odyssean scenes at Trapani and Mount Eryx.
This encounter is properly Odyssean, because the journeys at hand lead us back to our own Ithaca.
During my odyssean endeavours as a college coach, I have recruited a panoply of the most gifted of American youth.
Fernando was accustomed to scenes among his Odysseans, accustomed to pouring oil upon stormy seas.
And having himself now wasted half an hour in vain argument, he adjured them all to stop hanging about and get a move on with their precious demonstration or the Odysseans would be back and the place cluttered up with people before they had even begun.