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Odysseus
[ oh-dis-ee-uhs, oh-dis-yoos ]
noun
- king of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey: shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.
Odysseus
/ əˈ»å¾±Ë²õɪə²õ /
noun
- Greek myth one of the foremost of the Greek heroes at the siege of Troy, noted for his courage and ingenuity. His return to his kingdom of Ithaca was fraught with adventures in which he lost all his companions and he was acknowledged by his wife Penelope only after killing her suitors Roman nameUlysses
Odysseus
- A Greek hero in the Trojan War (see also Trojan War ). Odysseus helped bring about the fall of Troy by conceiving the ruse of the Trojan horse . After Troy was ruined, Odysseus wandered for ten years trying to return home, having many adventures along the way. ( See Circe , Cyclops , Penelope , Scylla and Charybdis , and Sirens .)
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As he looks back on his trajectory, Garcia’s own hero’s journey through Hollywood seems to mirror that of the Greek character Odysseus: a man faced with great challenges that at times feel insurmountable yet formative.
Intuitive Machines successfully landed a craft called Odysseus on the Moon in February last year, but it tipped over during the descent, meaning not all the scientific work could be carried out.
Its spacecraft Odysseus reached the Moon on 22 February last year.
As Sarah and her party travel on, they encounter one terrible thing after another, like Odysseus and his crew.
But Pasolini has chosen to set the movie on the island of Ithaca during the time of Odysseus, even if there is a certain modernity to the style and storytelling.
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