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

Ulysses Jiminez, 22, faces the murder charge as well as six counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of hit and run with death or permanent serious injury.

From Los Angeles Times

James Joyce’s "Ulysses" rained em dashes on winding sentences that he had already stripped of quotation marks, resulting in prose so unruly that numerous reading groups are devoted specifically to parsing it.

From Salon

President Ulysses Grant alone accounts for six of them.

From Salon

I would read “Ulysses” for the sheer pleasure of reading.

From Los Angeles Times

As an act of personal resistance, I’m tackling James Joyce’s “Ulysses” again.

From Los Angeles Times