Ulysses

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• This line comes from Tennyson's Ulysses, a poem the Honorable Edward Moore Kennedy has quoted on memorable occasions in the past.

• Joyce said that if Ulysses isn't worth reading, then life isn't worth living up to the challenge.

• "Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, City Point.

  Lincoln (2012)

• In the next election, their leader, Ulysses S. Grant would become the 18th President of the United States.

  Remember the Sultana (2015)

• In 1874, Ulysses S. Grant spoke from this same balcony.

  Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973)

• The board members of The Modern Library recently voted Ulysses the most important English-language novel of the twentieth century.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Homer had already introduced Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, as a narrator of the first four books of the Odyssey.

  Academic text (2000)

• "Orville Grant, brother of President Ulysses S. Grant... ...was accused by General Custer... ...of accepting a $1,000 bribe.

  Custer of the West (1967)

• His friendships had already touched the giants of the nineteenth century: Ulysses S. Grant, Whitman, and Emerson among them.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Ulysses is known for his long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War, as recounts in Homer's Odyssey.

Synonyms

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Odysseus

vsUlysses

• Literature

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A Greek hero known for his cleverness and long journey home after the Trojan War

is the Roman name for that same legendary Greek king and hero

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Etymology