In the first several years of their marriage, Ford supported himself and his new wife by running a sawmill. In 1891, he returned with Clara to Detroit, where he was hired as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company. Rising quickly through the ranks, he was promoted to chief engineer two years later. Around the same time, Clara gave birth to the coupleâs only son, Edsel Bryant Ford.
The Odyssey is a long narrative poem written by the Greek poet Homer, who (as far as anyone knows) didn't have another name. It is the story of the wanderings of the hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, in the Latin version) on his way home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.
The legendary story of Odysseus. The word Odyssey has come to mean a journey of epic proportions. The word comes from Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, written in the 8th century BC and it is a sequel to Homer's other epic poem, The Iliad, which describes the last days of the great Trojan War. The Odyssey speaks of Odysseus' adventures that delay by a decade the return to his beloved homeland, Ithaca.