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Look up: odyssey

  1. odyssey
    [n] - a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy 2. [n] - a long wandering and eventful journey
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Odyssey
    Greek epic poem; the product of an oral tradition, it was probably written before 700 BC and is attributed to Homer. It describes the voyage home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy, and the...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. odyssey
    The Odyssey S-PCS system is supported by the US aerospace company TRW and the Canadian telecommunications operator Teleglobe Inc.Odyssey will consist of 12 MEO satellites and will be operational by 1999 Category: News-systems and communications
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Odyssey
    Od'ys·sey noun [ Latin Odyssea , Greek ..., from ... Ulysses: confer French Odyssée .] An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/12

  5. odyssey
    noun a long wandering and eventful journey
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. Odyssey
    noun a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
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  7. Odyssey
    The `Odyssey` (Greek `ΟδÃ?Â?Ã?Æ’Ã?ƒεια` (Odússeia)) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated circa 700 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's `Iliad` and mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca, following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. During th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey

  8. Odyssey
    • (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. Odyssey
    (from the article `Homer`) presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey....and methods, so also guild priests spread their religious concepts and practices from the Indian Ocean to the Aegean Sea, and from the Nile River ... ...the life of an agricultural and seafaring people. Homer (c. 9th century ) records several constellations by th...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/7

  10. Odyssey
    (from the article `painting, Western`) ...was sometimes done by covering the whole area of the walls with elaborate landscapes, in which depth, atmosphere, and light are rendered in a ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/7

  11. Odyssey
    (from the article `Greek literature`) ...characters who wrestle with great problems, such as the existence of God and the purpose of human life. Kazantzákis had earlier published his ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/7

  12. Odyssey
    (from the article `lipogram`) a written text deliberately composed of words not having a certain letter (such as the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, which had no alpha in the first book, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/7

  13. odyssey
    1. a long wandering and eventful journey
    2. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

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  14. Odyssey
    Odyssey (od'isē) : see Homer.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A09169


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10 November 2009

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On 10 November 1871, David Livingstone, missionary and explorer was `found` by New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley, who greeted him with the famous words `Dr Livingstone, I presume`. Between November 1853 and May 1856 David Livingstone completed a remarkable coast-to-coast journey from Luanda in the west to the mouth of the Zambezi River in the east. It was an epic trip of 4,300 miles and Livingstone became the first European to complete it. Along the way he had discovered a giant waterfall called ‘Mosi-oa-tunya’ (the smoke that thunders). Livingstone named it Victoria Falls after the British monarch. read more

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