Homer does not mention any children by Calypso. After seven years Odysseus has built his boat and leaves Calypso. The goddess then sets wind at his back when he sets sail. Calypso also provides him with wine, bread, clothing, and more materials for his boat. Calypso leads Odysseus to an island where he can chop down trees and make planks for his boat. She angrily comments on how the gods hate goddesses having affairs with mortals.Ĭalypso provides Odysseus with an axe, drill, and adze to build a boat. His patron goddess Athena asks Zeus to order the release of Odysseus from the island Zeus orders the messenger Hermes to tell Calypso to set Odysseus free, for it was not Odysseus's destiny to live with her forever. He is seen sitting on a headland crying, and at night he is forced to sleep with her against his will. He can no longer bear being separated from his wife, Penelope, and wants to tell Calypso. Odysseus comes to wish for circumstances to change. Calypso enchants Odysseus with her singing as she moves to and fro, weaving on her loom with a golden shuttle.
According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner by force at Ogygia for seven years. In Homer's Odyssey, Calypso tries to keep the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband, while he also gets to enjoy her sensual pleasures forever. According to a fragment from the Catalogue of Women, Calypso bore the Cephalonians to Hermes as suggested by Hermes' visits to her island in the Odyssey. John Tzetzes makes her a daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, the parents of Circe, perhaps due to her association with Circe the two goddesses were sometimes confused due to their behaviour and connection to Odysseus. Apollodorus includes the name Calypso in his list of Nereids, the daughters of Nereus and Doris. Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus. Her mother is mostly unnamed, but Hyginus wrote that it was Pleione, mother of the Pleiades. An alternative explanation is that Calypso derives from versions of "Calí" + "Ópsis", meaning "Beautiful Sight".Ĭalypso is generally said to be the daughter of the Titan Atlas. According to Etymologicum Magnum, her name means "concealing the knowledge" ( καλύπτουσα το διανοούμενον, kalýptousa to dianooúmenon), which – combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα ( dolóessa, meaning "subtle" or "wily") – justifies the reclusive character of Calypso and her island. The name "Calypso" may derive from the Ancient Greek καλύπτω ( kalyptō), meaning "to cover", "to conceal", or "to hide". She promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but Odysseus preferred to return home. In Greek mythology, Calypso ( / k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ/ Greek: Καλυψώ, "she who conceals") was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years. Pleiades, Hyades, Hyas or the Oceanids and the Potamoiīy some accounts Latinus, by others Nausithous and Nausinous, the Cephalonians
Detail from Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton
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