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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ulysses

  1. The Roman name of the Greek hero Odysseus.

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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.
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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.

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President Ulysses Grant alone accounts for six of them.

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

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

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Some have been senior commanders, such as Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower, while some were heroic junior officers whose lives were on the line, like Presidents Kennedy and George H.W.

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