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At the end of Season 1, and midway through their Odyssean journey to America, the now-married couple were separated, forced to make their way to Montana, and each other, on their own.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

Dafydd Iwan's anthem, re-recorded for the tournament with the supplementary voices of Welsh fans, is an Odyssean protest song.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2022

Her only hope is to team up with Kola, the boy she rescued, for an Odyssean quest — to return him to his home, to rescue his family and to save her sisters.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2021

When you think of stories that explore acts of survival, Odyssean journeys, harsh, wild winters, and dystopian landscapes probably come to mind.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2020

If that were so, all the Books of the Iliad would, in the course of recitation of old and composition of new passages, be equally contaminated with late Odyssean linguistic style.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew