Odysseus

[ oh-dis-ee-uhs, oh-dis-yoos ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. 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

/ əˈdiːsɪəs /

noun

1. 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

1. 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 .)

Notes

The story of Odysseus' journey home is told in the Odysseyof Homer . By extension, an “odyssey” is any long or difficult journey or transformation.

Example Sentences

He is of course, referring to Homer's epic poem that follows the travels of Odysseus and his crew, who faced perils such a the monster Scylla and giant whirlpool Charybdis.

From Salon

The virus, called Apocryptovirus odysseus, along with 18 others that are closely related to it, was discovered through a computational screen of human neuron data -- an effort aimed at elucidating the connection between RNA viruses and neuroinflammatory disease.

From Science Daily

"We discovered A. odysseus in human neurons using the open-science Serratus platform to search through more than 150,000 RNA viruses" said Purav Gupta, first author on the study, recent high school graduate and current undergraduate student at U of T's Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research.

From Science Daily

The newly discovered A. odysseus is found in two hypervirulent strains of the T. gondii parasite, referred to as RUB and COUGAR.

From Science Daily

"It's obvious now that the A. odysseus virus could be a valuable marker of disease-causing infections, like severe toxoplasmosis, in humans or other animals. The next step is to test if this raises the possibility that treating a parasite's viruses could be an effective means of treating symptoms that arise from parasitic infections."

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