That such a tradition lies behind The Iliad and The Odyssey, at least, is hard to deny.

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.

Thus one line in five from The Iliad and The Odyssey is to be found somewhere else in the two poems.

Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

* In the Odyssey, Calypso is described as having " spread a table with ambrosia and set it by Hermes, and mixed the rosy-red nectar.

He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.

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

Homer is assumed to refer to this fortification when he mentions the " strong-built House of Erechtheus " ( Odyssey 7. 81 ).

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Another list of Aeolus ' children is found in scholia on the Odyssey.

* 2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

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.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is described as living in a mansion that stands in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood.

In Homer's Iliad, the horses of the Myrmidons graze on wild celery that grows in the marshes of Troy, and in Odyssey, there is mention of the meadows of violet and wild celery surrounding the cave of Calypso.

In Homer's Odyssey she is the blond-haired goddess who separates the chaff from the grain.

In the 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's first sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is described by Dr. Chandra as being caught in a " Hofstadter – Möbius loop ".

Dr. David Bowman is a fictional character in the Space Odyssey series.

In 2061: Odyssey Three, Heywood Floyd is surprised to encounter HAL, now stored alongside Dave Bowman in the Europa monolith.

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

In the French-language version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL's name is CARL, Cerveau Analytique de Recherche et de Liaison ( Analytic Brain for Research and Communication ), however, the television camera eye plates read " HAL 9000 ".

Ralph H. Baer, inventor of television video games and the Magnavox Odyssey console, released in 1972, created the first video game joysticks in 1967.

A meeting with American television companies ( ABC, Métromédia, NBC ) created the series The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau, with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress ) intended to give the films a " personalized adventure " style.

* In 1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

In 1999, the reruns moved to Odyssey Network ( which was co-owned by Henson's company ), featuring new introductions by Brian Henson, until Odyssey shut down Henson's half of the channel in 2001 ; the show has not been seen on American television since.

In 1984, the memoir was adapted as a PBS television movie entitled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks.

* Dreyfus in Opera and Ballet / The Odyssey of George Whyte, September 1994, WDR, Swedish, Hungarian and Finnish television.

" The Odyssey of Flight 33 " is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Jazz is a recurring theme, with references abounding in their songs, and there are numerous other film, television and literary references and allusions, such as " Home at Last " ( from Aja ), which was inspired by Homer's Odyssey.

In the television documentary, The Odyssey of John Dos Passos, Norman Mailer said simply: “ Those three volumes of U. S. A. make up the idea of a ' great American novel.

Baer created the first light gun and game for home television use, sold grouped with a game expansion pack for the Odyssey, and collectively known as the Shooting Gallery.

OK Go's distinctive, choreography-heavy performance style first originated from a 1999 appearance on the Chicago-based public television show " Chic-a-GoGo "; WBEZ radio personalities Peter Sagal, Jerome McDonnell of Worldview, Gretchen Helfrich ( formerly of Odyssey ) and Ira Glass pretended to play instruments to " C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips " as OK Go danced, because the band wasn't allowed to play live on the show.

The MGM-British Studios complex ( demolished in the early 1970s ) saw the production of many well-known films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Where Eagles Dare and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as well as many ITV television series including The Prisoner.

Around this time, the television company, ATV Midlands started each day's broadcasting with a short film accompanied by another song performed by Rain with de Sykes singing vocals, " Odyssey " ( often incorrectly referred to as " Life is a Beautiful Book ").

2001: A Space Road Odyssey is a 2001 Canadian television series that aired on Space channel.

In 2004 Johnson travelled to Greece to film an episode of the television series Goddess Odyssey in which he researched the Helen of Troy myth.

* May-Magnavox release the first home video game console which can be connected to a television set – the Magnavox Odyssey, invented by Ralph H. Baer.

Sonja Smits ( born September 8, 1958 in Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada ) is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including Falcon Crest, Airwolf, Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, Street Legal, Traders and The Eleventh Hour.

The next year's Battle Chess 4000 spoofs science fiction movies and television series ( such as a battle sequence that involves the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey ) and uses a clay animation art style similar to Clayfighter.

The story revolves around a set of people on a routine spaceflight of the space shuttle Odyssey, on August 7, 2007: four astronauts, a scientist, and a television news reporter.

* Costa's Garden Odyssey, an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Grogiadis

USS Odyssey refers to several science-fiction television starships:

In 1986, after declining profitability in a new era of video games and cable television, Revell was purchased by Odyssey Partners of New York and folded into Monogram Models of Morton Grove, Illinois ( which Odyssey had purchased earlier that year ).