Ulysses

[yoo-lis-eez]

noun

1. Classical Mythology.,  Latin name for Odysseus.

2. (italics),  a psychological novel (1922) by James Joyce.

3. a male given name.

Ulysses

/ ˈjuːlɪˌsiːz, juːˈlɪsiːz /

noun

1. the Latin name of Odysseus

Ulysses

1. The Roman name of the Greek hero Odysseus.

The Irish author James Joyce adopted the name for the title of his masterpiece of the early twentieth century, which is, in part, a retelling of the myth of Odysseus.

In the Aeneid of Virgil, which was written in Latin, Odysseus is called Ulysses.

Example Sentences

“There’s Jack, Devon, and Ulysses. They’re way better company than club promoters or industry people. They don’t talk!”

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He placed these zeitgeist figures in the orbit of a more humble historical figure named Henry Carr, who figured into Joyce’s “Ulysses.”

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As workers cleaned his Toyota Camry, a retired history professor waited on a bench, reading a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.

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The success of “Ulysses” was “hard to bear,” Ms. Wade writes.

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In 1862 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant expelled Jews “as a class” from the occupied military district he administered, claiming that they violated “every regulation of trade.”

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