The reason why Odysseus cannot come home easily is that Calypso has fallen in love with him and will not let go. Basically, Calypso stated this in the book: ‘ought to be ashamed of yourselves You are always jealous and hate seeing a goddess take … a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony” (Homer 87) and another reason why Athena can't just bring Odysseus home because Poseidon (Neptune) is very angry at him for blinding his son , the king of Cyclops and prevents him from coming home to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus in which he says this to Odysseus when he spotted him sailing to his home and for some reason Poseidon does not say anything while trying to stop Odysseus (Homer 92-98) and in the beginning of the story Jove
