c. 1600, "Odyssey," from Latin Odyssea, from Greek Odysseia, name of the Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece, relating the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the Trojan War. Figurative sense of "long, adventurous journey" is first recorded 1889.
例文
1. The Odyssey tells what happened to the Greek heroes after the sack of Troy.
「オデッセイ」は、トロイが略奪された後にギリシャの英雄たちに起きた物語だ。
2.Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother.