According to this:
- ...Kubrick used Homer's The Odyssey as both a model of literary merit and a source of inspiration for the title. Kubrick said, "It occurred to us that for the Greeks the vast stretches of the sea must have had the same sort of mystery and remoteness
that space has for our generation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)#Writing
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