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Odyssey roughly translates to "The story of Odysseus", so yes, the name existed before Homer's story. The semantic connection of odyssey and a long, dangerous and arduous journey came way after that.
Does that mean a story about Homer would be a Homey?
The Odyssey was called Odysseia. The suffix -eia is an abstract noun suffix, so it's sort of like a titular case for the name. Following the same logic, it would be Homereia and thus Homerey.