Crossword clues for odysseus
odysseus
- Trojan War hero
- "Iliad" hero
- Greek hero
- Penelope's husband
- Hero of the Trojan War
- Post-Trojan War wanderer
- Penelope's peripatetic husband
- Mythical escapee from the Sirens
- Laertes' son
- King of Ithaca, who returned after the siege of Troy
- King of Ithaca
- Greek hero of an epic journey home from Troy
- Captive of the sea nymph Calypso
- He devised the Trojan horse
- His return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in Homer's Odyssey
- (Greek Mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero
- Greek hero who had an epic journey to get home
- Greek hero’s body is as Zeus decapitated
- Old Roman god guards unknown ship for hero
- Old Latin god saved unknown vessel for Greek traveller
- Legendary hero finding last of deadly doses concocted by us
- Homeric wanderer
- His Greek island tour became quite an epic
- Hero of Greek epic
- Headless corpse's seen regularly by American hero
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
king of Ithaca, from Greek Odysseus (Latin Ulysses), of unknown origin, perhaps related to odyssasthai "to be grieved at, be angry at."
Wikipedia
Odysseus (; ), also known by the Latin name Ulysses (, ; ), was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in that same epic cycle.
Husband of Penelope, father of Telemachus, and son of Laërtes and Anticlea, Odysseus is renowned for his brilliance, guile, and versatility (polytropos), and is hence known by the epithet Odysseus the Cunning (mētis, or "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for the Odyssey, ten eventful years he took to return home after the decade-long Trojan War.
Odysseus is the largest crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. It is 445 km across, more than 2/5 of the moon's diameter, and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. It is situated in the western part of leading hemisphere of the moon—the latitude and longitude of its center are 32.8°N and 128.9°W, respectively. It is named after the Greek hero Odysseus.
Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology.
Odysseus may also refer to:
- Odysseus (crater), a crater on Tethys, a moon of Saturn
- Odysseus (e-mail client), an email program based on Eudora
- Odysseus (polychaete), a genus of polychaete worms, in the family Terebellidae
- 1143 Odysseus, an asteroid
- Ulysses (spacecraft), a NASA and ESA spaceprobe studying the Sun
- The Odyssey (TV miniseries) (1997)
- Odysseus (role-playing game), 1980 role-playing game
Odysseus is a role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1980.
Usage examples of "odysseus".
Ages prior, a Greek named Homer had regaled his listeners by extolling the herculean exploits of Achilles, Odysseus, Telamonian Aias, Diomedes and company.
A permanent guard was kept on the ships and checkpoints were maintained night and day on all roads leading from Aulis, manned by archers faithful to Odysseus or the Cretan Idomeneus, who had made themselves jointly responsible for security.
Ares to get his second wind, but rush in with chariot and spear behind the wild leadership of Diomedes and Odysseus.
Odysseus of Ithaca was there with his stocky, fair-bearded compatriots from the Western Islands.
No stories belong to Ithaca, except only that it is the birthplace of Odysseus, son of Laertes.
On Ithaca Odysseus is nobody, lord of kelp-gatherers and swineherds and a few barren crags.
In those days she used to sit here during the hours of sunlight and watch that balcony beneath for the tall, red-haired young man who had so strongly attracted her that she wove whole fantasies around him, pretending he was King Odysseus of Ithaca and she was his faithful Queen Penelope, waiting for him to come home.
Likewise in the classical afterworlds of the Odyssey and Aeneid, Odysseus and Aeneas readily recognize and can talk with the shades of those recently dead.
On the same flat area near Achilles, to the right of Odysseus and the Atrides but standing apart, are Mahnmut, Orphu, and Hockenberry.
Most of the guests had fled, running down the road when they could find no available droshky or carriole or voynix to pull them, but about seventy disciples had stayed, standing with Ada and Odysseus on the sloping yard.
Say that you have taken it to be out of the way of the smoke, inasmuch as it is no longer what it was when Odysseus went away, but has become soiled and begrimed with soot.
Odysseus, in the unlikely event that he could ever have encountered young Braithwaite, would surely have had no trouble disguising such a murder?
Daeman, Odysseus, and Hannah filled the three concavities behind them, and Ada glanced back once to find her friend looking longingly at the bearded man.
Thereon Antiphus of the gleaming corslet, son of Priam, hurled a spear at Ajax from amid the crowd and missed him, but he hit Leucus, the brave comrade of Odysseus, in the groin, as he was dragging the body of Simoeisius over to the other side.
Round-faced, red-haired Menelaus was there, whose cuckolding by Paris had provided the pretext for the war, and wily Odysseus, and the aged and rambling Nestor, whose head trembled incessantly.