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the ten-year detour home that invented every road trip gone catastrophically wrong
means A long, eventful journey, especially one full of wandering, hardship, and transformation.
from Straight from Homer's epic the Odyssey, named for its hero Odysseus, whose decade-long struggle to sail home from Troy gave us the word. The Greek Odysseia simply meant 'the story of Odysseus,' but the journey was so legendary that his name became shorthand for any epic, winding quest. English borrowed it via Latin in the 19th century to describe travels of his caliber.
- return trip
- Ten years sailing what should take weeks
- the trick
- Odysseus told a cyclops his name was Nobody
- loyal dog
- Argos waited twenty years, then died seeing him
- word legacy
- Any epic journey now borrows this name
- author mystery
- Homer may have been multiple people or none
homer's odyssey — ancient greek epic poem composed ~8th century bce, tells odysseus's 10-year journey home from troy
honda odyssey — minivan first produced in 1994, best-selling minivan in north america