Ulysses Explained

Ulysses is one form of the Roman name for Odysseus, a hero in ancient Greek literature.

Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus, a legendary Greek hero recognized for his intelligence and cunning. He is famous for his long, adventurous journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, as narrated in Homer's Odyssey.

Ulysses may also refer to:

People

• Ulysses (given name), including a list of people with this name

Places in the United States

• Ulysses, Kansas
• Ulysses, Kentucky
• Ulysses, Nebraska
• Ulysses Township, Butler County, Nebraska
• Ulysses, New York
• Ulysses, Pennsylvania
• Ulysses Township, Pennsylvania

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• "Ulysses" (poem), by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Ulysses (play), a 1705 play by Nicholas Rowe
• Ulysses, a 1902 play by Stephen Phillips
• Ulysses (novel), by James Joyce
  • Ulysses (broadcast), a 1982 RTÉ Radio broadcast of the entire text of the novel
• HMS Ulysses (novel), by Alistair Maclean
• Ulysses (comics), two members of a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe
• Ulysses Klaue, a character in Marvel comic books
• , a light novel

Film and television

• Ulysses (1954 film), starring Kirk Douglas based on the story of Homer's Odyssey
• Ulysses (1967 film), based on Joyce's novel
• Ulysses (2011 film), a 2011 Chilean film
• Ulysses (broadcast), a dramatised radio broadcast of Joyce's novel
• Ulysses 31, a French-Japanese anime television program
• Ulixes, a fictional spacecraft in the 4th season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Music

• Ulysse (Rebel), a 1703 French opera by Jean-Fery Rebel
• Ulisse, a 1968 Italian opera by Luigi Dallapiccola
• Ulysses, a 1947 English-language cantata by Mátyás Seiber
• Ulysses (American band), an American indie rock band
• Ulysses (German band), a German progressive rock band
• Ulysses (EP), by Shimamiya Eiko, 2005
• "Ulysses" (song), by Franz Ferdinand, 2008
• "Ullyses", a song by Dead Can Dance from the 1988 album The Serpent's Egg

Video games

• Ulysses 1994XF04, a fictional asteroid in the video game Ace Combat
• Ulysses, an assumed name of the antagonist of the expansion Lonesome Road

Science and technology

• ULYSSES (cable system), a submarine communications cable network
• Ulysses (robot), a bomb-detecting robot
• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses (text editor), a software product for creative writing
• Ulysses butterfly (Papilio ulysses) a butterfly endemic to Australasia
• 5254 Ulysses, an asteroid
• Typhoon Dolphin (2008), a 2008 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines
• Typhoon Vamco, a 2020 Pacific Typhoon known as Ulysses in the Philippines

Sport

• Ulisses FC, a defunct Armenian football club
• Ulysses F.C., a former English football club

Vehicles

Maritime

• , a 116-meter expedition yacht
• , four ships of the British Royal Navy
• , any of several ships
• , any of several ships
  • SS Ulysses (1914), a World War I-era steel-hulled screw steamer
• , any of several ships of the U.S. Navy
  • USS Ulysses (ARB-9), a battle damage repair ship of the U.S. Navy

Other vehicles

• Ulysses (spacecraft), a space probe designed to study the Sun
• Ulysses, manufactured by the Buell Motorcycle Company
• Ulysses (later Grierson), a GWR 3031 Class locomotive on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Fiat Ulysse

Other uses

• Ulysses (horse) (born 2013), a thoroughbred racehorse
• Ulysses Club, an international motorcycling club

See also

• • • Odysseus (disambiguation), the Greek form of this name