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How to use Odysseus in a sentence

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Unlike Achilles, who enjoyed divine maternity, Odysseus is solely of human parentage.
Odysseus was a braggart and a poor winner who couldn't keep his big mouth shut and got punished by the gods for it.
She tells him that Odysseus will not come back and calls her maids in to bathe the beggar and give him finer clothing.
So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
She bathes his feet and begins to move upward when Odysseus realizes that he has an old scar she will recognize.
During his subsequent wanderings, Odysseus is dipped repeatedly back into the condition of the obscured.
Eventually they were reconciled and Odysseus was restored as the leader of Ithaca.
This is the truly Hegelian aspect of Odysseus, the idea that he must deny his identity in order to preserve it.
This is the island Odysseus keeps claiming he is from when he lies to his family and the swineherd.
Laodamas encourages him to join the contest and Odysseus asks them why they want to challenge him.
Odysseus is forced to box another beggar and is rewarded with blood pudding and wine when he wins.
Zeus freed Odysseus from the nymph Calypso, who held him prisoner on her island, by sending Mercury with an order to Calypso herself.
The blinded Cyclops at the cave exit feels the emerging animals, under whose bellies Odysseus and his followers are clinging.
Odysseus explains that the Greek soldiers will not hold their positions if they see their captains preparing the ships for flight.
The swineherd gives the bow to Odysseus and the suitors yell at him.
When Odysseus journeyed back from Troy, his men tied him to the mast of his ship when the Sirens tempted him to leave it.
Odysseus walked up to the cave with a goatskin full of wine.
He also expresses hope that Odysseus will return home and avenge himself.
When Babylonian storytellers told of Gilgamesh, when Homer sang of Odysseus, when Vergil wrote of Aeneas, they were speaking about their first times.
Shipwrecks are a constant in this tale, being the main means of precipitating Pericles into his various adventures, like an especially unlucky Odysseus.
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Odysseus ordered his men to stuff their ears with beeswax as they rowed by.
While this continues, the swineherd is leading Odysseus into the town.
Odysseus tries to take neither a bathe nor bedding, but she insists.
The citizens of Ithaca have followed Odysseus on the road, planning to avenge the killing of the Suitors, their sons.
The most evident flaw that Odysseus sports is that of his arrogance and his pride, or hubris.
The Cyclops then throws the top half of a mountain at him and prays to his father, Poseidon, saying that Odysseus has blinded him.
When Odysseus washes up on Scherie, home to the Phaeacians, he is assisted by the young Nausicaa and is treated hospitably.
Both Odysseus and Gilgamesh are known for traveling to the ends of the earth, and on their journeys go to the land of the dead.
It is because of Penelope that Odysseus has fame and a successful homecoming.
The two scenes that the poet describes are Odysseus on Calypso's island and Odysseus' encounter with the Phaeacians.
These encounters are useful in understanding that Odysseus is in a world beyond man and that influences the fact he cannot return home.
The Phaeacians feed Odysseus, give him a place to sleep, and give him a safe voyage home, which are all things a good host should do.
This is best seen when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, begs Antinous, one of the suitors, for food and Antinous denies his request.
Odysseus essentially says that while Antinous may look like a king, he is far from a king since he is not generous.
An example of Odysseus testing the loyalties of others is when he returns home.
After Odysseus reveals his true identity, the characters test Odysseus' identity to see if he really is who he says he is.
For instance, bird omens are shown to Telemachus, Penelope, Odysseus, and the suitors.
However, Odysseus is the only character that receives thunder or lightning as an omen.
It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
Hence Odysseus has to traverse it in order to arrive in the realm of the dead.
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Eumaeus carved the swineflesh, giving the best portion to Odysseus whom he treated as the guest of honor.
Unlike the typical post-Enlightenment nostalgic, Odysseus doesn't misremember his home or idealize what awaits him on Ithaka.
This direct relationship between Zeus and Odysseus represents the kingship of Odysseus.
He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas.
In the Odyssey, Poseidon is notable for his hatred of Odysseus who blinded the god's son, the cyclops Polyphemus.
Odysseus is even told, notwithstanding his ultimate safe return, that to placate the wrath of Poseidon will require one more voyage on his part.
Ithaca was the name of the island home of Odysseus in the epic Ancient Greek poem the Odyssey by Homer.
Odysseus takes a ship and returns Chryseis to her father, whereupon Apollo ends the plague.
The plan backfires, and only the intervention of Odysseus, inspired by Athena, stops a rout.
Odysseus confronts and beats Thersites, a common soldier who voices discontent about fighting Agamemnon's war.
Unable to hide his emotion as he relives this episode, Odysseus at last reveals his identity.
After a failed piratical raid on Ismaros in the land of the Cicones, Odysseus and his twelve ships were driven off course by storms.
Poseidon then cursed Odysseus to wander the sea for ten years, during which he would lose all his crew and return home through the aid of others.
After the escape, Odysseus and his crew stayed with Aeolus, a king endowed by the gods with the winds.
He gave Odysseus a leather bag containing all the winds, except the west wind, a gift that should have ensured a safe return home.
Just as Ithaca came into sight, the greedy sailors naively opened the bag while Odysseus slept, thinking it contained gold.
Hermes warned Odysseus about Circe and gave Odysseus a drug called moly which gave him resistance to Circe's magic.
Elpenor's ghost told Odysseus to bury his body, which Odysseus promised to do.
Odysseus then summoned the spirit of the prophet Tiresias for advice on how to appease Poseidon upon his return home.
Next Odysseus met the spirit of his own mother, who had died of grief during his long absence.
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All of the sailors had their ears plugged up with beeswax, except for Odysseus, who was tied to the mast as he wanted to hear the song.
Having listened with rapt attention to his story, the Phaeacians, who are skilled mariners, agree to help Odysseus get home.
Athena disguises Odysseus as a wandering beggar so he can see how things stand in his household.
Accompanied by Eumaeus, Odysseus returns to his own house, still pretending to be a beggar.
Odysseus meets Penelope and tests her intentions by saying he once met Odysseus in Crete.
Even more intensely than for Odysseus at his homecoming and anagnorisis, these paradigms of misbelieving fear and faith meet in the passion of Jesus.
Roman authors of the first century AD referred to popular legends that the city of Lisbon was founded by the mythical hero Odysseus on his journey home from Troy.
For example, Telemachus wishes for vengeance and for Odysseus to be home, Penelope wishes for Odysseus' return, and the suitors wish for the death of Telemachus.
This is a difficult task since it is made out of a living tree that would require being cut down, a fact that only the real Odysseus would know, thus proving his identity.
Odysseus tests the loyalty of others and others test Odysseus' identity.
Calypso keeps Odysseus concealed from the world and unable to return home.
The rest of Odysseus' adventures are recounted by Odysseus himself.
Also, because Odysseus knows about Clytemnestra's betrayal, Odysseus returns home in disguise in order to test the loyalty of his own wife, Penelope.
Odysseus did not realise how long it would take to get home to his family.
While Odysseus was away praying, his men ignored the warnings of Tiresias and Circe and hunted the sacred cattle of the sun god Helios as their food had run short.
Finally, guided by Circe's instructions, Odysseus and his crew crossed the ocean and reached a harbor at the western edge of the world, where Odysseus sacrificed to the dead.
While they were escaping, however, Odysseus foolishly told Polyphemus his identity, and Polyphemus told his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus had blinded him.
Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role.
Odysseus is welcomed and is not at first asked for his name.
Odysseus builds a raft and is given clothing, food, and drink by Calypso.

Examples from Classical Literature

Odysseus in the house of Alcinous is not different from Odysseus of the return to Ithaca.
It is not to be compared with the phaeacian stories of the adventures of Odysseus.
Here is a scene from it, the first after the prologue, which would have been spoken by Odysseus.
Odysseus was at Negropont, from whence seven hundred Albanians had lately absconded.
We have many of us known men who, like Odysseus, have wearied of ambition and have only desired rest.
When Odysseus reached the country of the lotophagi, many of his sailors after eating the lotus lost all wish to return home.
Twilight had not yielded to day when Odysseus awoke from his trancelike sleep, and gazed in bewilderment around him.
But when Odysseus speaks falsely he is voluntarily and intentionally false.
In the end there existed a kind of epic history of the world, as known to the Greeks, down to the death of Odysseus, when the heroic age ended.
It's 10 years after the sacking of Troy, and Odysseus still hasn't returned to his home in Ithaca.
So all night long Odysseus took thought how they might possibly escape.
Moreover, every one thought or said that King Odysseus must be dead.
Last of all, Odysseus begged leave to try, and was laughed to scorn.
She knew him then for her husband Odysseus, come home at last.
Take even the irrational incidents in the Odyssey, where Odysseus is left upon the shore of Ithaca.
The adjudging of the arms of Achilles takes place, and Odysseus, by the contriving of Athena, gains them.
Odysseus and Telemachos rushed into the fray with double-edged swords.
With that he raised the footstool and struck Odysseus on the shoulder.
Such were the sirens who would have compassed the destruction of Odysseus.
I desire to learn what became of Odysseus, the son of Laertes.
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Thus in the recognition of Odysseus by his scar, the discovery is made in one way by the nurse, in another by the swineherds.
He was here either to get things out of the sea, or to write upon the probable course of Odysseus, for Greek after all was his hobby.
Years after the sack of Troy, moved by song of a Phaeacian harper, Odysseus sheds molten tears for the Greeks fallen there.
Ares routs the army of Odysseus and Athena engages with Ares, until Apollo separates them.
With this word in his mind, Odysseus departed and came once more to Aeaea.
His decision is clearly to pump up the violence, make it more graphic, as in the night raid of Odysseus and Diomedes on the Trojan camp.
Immediately after arriving on Ithaca with Phaeacian treasure Odysseus encounters a shepherd to whom he lies about his history and his identity.
Again, there is a composite kind of recognition involving false inference on the part of one of the characters, as in the Odysseus Disguised as a Messenger.
And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon.
It told of the adventures of Odysseus in Thesprotis after the killing of the Suitors, of his return to Ithaca, and his death at the hands of Telegonis, his son by Circe.

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