Both nectar and ambrosia are fragrant, and may be used as perfume: in the Odyssey Menelaus and his men are disguised as seals in untanned seal skins, " and the deadly smell of the seal skins vexed us sore ; but the goddess saved us ; she brought ambrosia and put it under our nostrils.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

The hexameter was first used by early Greek poets of the oral tradition, and the most complete extant examples of their works are the Iliad and the Odyssey, which influenced the authors of all later classical epics that survive today.

Odyssey aided NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reached Mars in March 2006, by monitoring atmospheric conditions during months when the newly arrived orbiter used aerobraking to alter its orbit into the desired shape.

*" Rolling " ( from El Oso ) is used in one of the 2012 commercials for Odyssey Metal-X putters.

Since the release of the film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey in 1994, the instrument has enjoyed a resurgence in interest and has become more widely used by contemporary musicians.

Vangelis performed live and released Mythodea, a predominantly orchestral rather than electronic piece that was originally written in 1993, and used by NASA as the theme for the Mars Odyssey mission in 2001.

While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches ( the Odyssey ) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.

Clarke was so impressed by the demonstration that he used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave Bowman.

The only other instruments used were Korg MS-20 and ARP Odyssey analogue synthesizers usually driven by a Korg SQ-10 analog sequencer, with an Oberheim OB-Xa added around the time of the album Für Immer.

Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song.

She used themes from the Iliad and Odyssey because " they contained all Eudocia needed to tell the Gospel story.

Though light guns have been used in earlier arcade games such as Sega's Periscope in 1966 and Missile in 1969, the first home console light gun was released for the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 ; later on, Nintendo would include one standard on their Famicom and NES, called the NES Zapper.

More recently, aerobraking was used by the Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, in both cases without incident.

In an interview on Inside the Actors Studio, Hopkins said that he used the characteristics of Katharine Hepburn and HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey as inspiration for his performance.

The drawings, subsequently turned into prints, of John Flaxman used very simple line drawing and figures mostly in profile to depict The Odyssey and other subjects, and once " fired the artistic youth of Europe " but are now " neglected ", while the history paintings of Angelika Kaufmann, mainly a portraitist, are described as having " an unctuous softness and tediousness " by Fritz Novotny.

Homer used the stock epithet " rosy-fingered Dawn " frequently in The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Arthur C. Clarke used a Kaypro II to write and collaboratively edit ( via modem from Sri Lanka ) his 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two and the later film adaptation.

The less wide but still spectacular Super Panavision 70 was used to film the Cinerama presentations Grand Prix ( 1966 ), 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) ( which also featured scenes shot in Todd-AO and MCS-70 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ) and Krakatoa, East of Java ( 1969 ) ( which also featured scenes shot in Todd-AO ).

* In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, the banyan tree is used several times as a reference to describe a fictional life form native to Europa ( moon ).

Gayanes " Adagio " was used in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Patriot Games among other films.

* Zenit 3SL rockets of Sea Launch are transported horizontally by sea aboard the Ocean Odyssey converted oil rig, which is then used to erect and launch them.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

The use of a frame story in which a single narrative is set in the context of the telling of a story is also a technique with a long history, dating back at least to the beginning section of the Odyssey, in which the narrator Odysseus tells of his wandering in the court of King Alcinous.

Likely original to the oral tradition, the narrative technique of beginning a story in medias res is a stylistic convention of epic poetry, the exemplar in Western literature being the Iliad ( 9th c. BC ) and the Odyssey ( 9th c. BC ), by Homer.

The Ewok movies proved an opportunity for ILM to hone a technique from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The same technique would later be used to simulate a zero gravity environment in 2001: A Space Odyssey, to allow Lionel Richie to perform a similar dance in the video for " Dancing on the Ceiling ," and to enable Clark Kent to walk up walls to change a light bulb in the pilot episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Although the technique had been used experimentally for some time, it was during the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey that the modern version was fully developed.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would be part of the writing and production teams for a sequel to COSMOS, to be called Cosmos: A space-time Odyssey, which is expected to be telecast in 2013.

The two have merged into one entity called " Halman " after Bowman rescued HAL from the dying Discovery One spaceship towards the end of 2010: Odyssey Two.

Several strategy games, such as Rise of Nations, Rome: Total War, Spartan Total Warrior, Empire Earth, Civilization, Ancient Wars: Sparta, Age of Empires, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and Age of Mythology, feature infantry units called " Hoplites " or " Phalanx ".

In the Odyssey, the behaviour of Penelope's suitors is called hubris by Homer, possibly still in a broader meaning than was later applied.

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey ( excluding Odysseus ' embedded narrative of his wanderings ) take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands.

In the Odyssey, however, Zethus's wife is called a daughter of Pandareus in book 19, who killed her son Itylos in a fit of madness and became a nightingale.

The works of Homer ( the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns ) and of Hesiod were written in a literary dialect called Homeric Greek or Epic Greek, which largely comprises Old Ionic, with some borrowings from the neighboring Aeolic dialect to the north.

It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle ( Poetics 13. 92 ): " His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies "; but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled " Homerica " in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda.

In Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Sun is once in each work called Hyperionides () ' son of Hyperion ', and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other writings.

However when they got there they found a gigantic woman, the wife of Antiphates who promptly called her husband, who immediately left the assembly of the people and upon arrival snatched up one of the men and killed him on the spot, presumably then drinking his blood ( as it states in the Odyssey that he only met with the men with the intention of drinking their blood ).

The famous ancient Greek poet and writer, Homer, first mentioned the island in his masterpieces, the Iliad and the Odyssey, stating that the first inhabitants of it were the son of King Dardanos of Troy called Zakynthos and his men and that they first came on the island around 1500 – 1600 BC.

The Phaiakians in the Odyssey did not know Odysseus ( although they knew of him, as evidenced by the tales of Demodocus ), so they called him a " stranger ".

A song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called More News from Nowhere, which is loosely based on the Odyssey, contains a lyric briefly summarizing the story of Odysseus and Calypso.

She has an aquatic counterpart called " havsfrun " or " Havsrå " ( Sea wife / woman ) who is very similar to the Sirens Odysseus meets in the Odyssey.

In level 2, The Subway, there is a room called the " Secret Room of Public Knowledge " which dedicates Robot Odyssey to Warren Robinett, who wrote the animation utility underlying the game.

One Girl One Laptop productions created a spiritual successor called Gate which uses the same digital logic puzzles as Robot Odyssey.

In 1976, journalist Nik Cohn contributed a story called " Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ," about a young man in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood who, once a week, went to a local disco called Odyssey 2001 ; the story was a sensation and served as the basis for the film Saturday Night Fever.

A team of scientists develop a laser satellite-controlling computer system called MAAX ( Meteoroid and Asteroid Exploder ) to destroy the meteoroid ; however, MAAX develops a personality of its own ( in an obvious parody of the sentient computer HAL from the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey ) and refuses to save the planet unless Earth's scientists can solve seven science riddles.

An add-on, called The Red Odyssey, was later released with an American and a Chinese campaign.

Odyssey of the Mind, often called OM ( although the official acronym is OotM ), is a creative problem-solving competition involving students from kindergarten through college.