This week’s theme
Eponyms from antiquity

This week’s words
epicurean
Herodian
Herodotean
Odyssean


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ah-duh-SEE-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: Relating to a long and eventful journey.

ETYMOLOGY:

Ultimately after Odysseus, hero of Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey, which recounts his ten-year journey home after the fall of Troy. Earliest documented use: c. 1614.

NOTES:

After the fall of Troy, it took Odysseus ten years to get home to Ithaca, including seven years in captivity. He even sought travel advice from a dead prophet. When your journey requires a séance, you’ve gone well beyond asking for directions.

USAGE:

“[No Direction Home: Bob Dylan] is a film about an artist discovering himself -- an Odyssean return to that ‘home’ Dylan discovered in those early records.”
Paul de Barros; Bringing It All Back Home; The Seattle Times (Washington); Sep 23, 2005.

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