The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the ...

The British newspaper The Times has named Lipsi, a gem in the Dodecanese, as Greece’s top island, celebrated for its ...

Consequently, Zeus attacks the ship with a lightning bolt, killing all but Odysseus and destroying the ships. Odysseus washes ashore on the island of Ogygia, where the alluring nymph Calypso lives. He ...

For example, some writers argued that Calypso’s island, Ogygia, should be identified with one of the islands of the British Isles. In addition to the fact that the journey in the Odyssey took a long ...

This one drowns what’s left of Odysseus’s crew. Odysseus is the sole survivor. Odysseus washes ashore on Calypso’s island, where he will be a kept man for seven years while Calypso helps him process ...

While the tales of Odysseus are enjoying their moment at present, the tales of Sinbad actually reveal a more attractive and compelling character in his greater generosity of spirit and his love of ...

Of course, the sea god Poseidon had it in for Odysseus. Roth makes clear, however, that even without being turned into swine, spending seven years with the wrong woman (see Calypso) and the sea ...

In The Odyssey, Athena is Odysseus’ patron goddess, guiding him through his trials and helping him on his long journey home. Another possibility is that Zendaya could be playing Calypso, the sea nymph ...

Only in Book 5 do we meet Odysseus himself. And he’s not battling monsters—he’s weeping on a beach. Trapped for seven years on the island of Ogygia, held by the nymph Calypso, he’s been ...

Calypso needs to be so enchanting and so beautiful that we understand why Odysseus doesn’t exactly fight as hard as he should to get home much sooner. Being trapped on an island with Zendaya ...

He does not find his father but he has learned the ways of a young man, but in the process he learns that Odysseus is the captive of the beautiful sea nymph Calypso. The next section of the story ...