It is then revealed that Odysseus was being help captive by the nymph Calypso on the island of Ogygia, and after escaping he begins his journey home only to be shipwrecked at Scheria. There he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Odysseus spends seven of his 10 years away trapped on the island Ogygia where he’s a captive of the nymph Calypso. Calypso wants Odysseus as her husband, offering him immortality as a reward.

Credit: Furian / depositphotos.com However, the most evocative name is Ogygia, which, according to interpretations by cartographers and writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, was the refuge where ...