Calypso

or hatred. One of the minor goddesses in The Odyssey, Calypso, embodies love in every sense of the word. She expresses her love for Odysseus by caring for him and offering him immortality. However, her strong devotion to him leads to a furious outburst and an unwillingness to release her lover. Calypso is depicted as a gentle goddess when she is first introduced, but once Zeus orders that Odysseus be freed, her selfishness is exposed. Calypso expresses a love for Odysseus that rivals…

wife physically. Odysseus slept with two main women from the Odyssey, Calypso and Circe. He slept with Circe after she realizes he is immune to her…

Depictions of women in stories are altered because of their association with men. For example, illustrates Circe as evil due to her hatred of men and actions. Calypso is illustrated as selfish and seductive due to her and Odysseus’ hearts disagreeing. Finally, the suitors deem Penelope as sly by the suitors because of her undying loyalty to Odysseus. In the patriarchal society, The Odyssey is told in, women are categorized as simple, one-dimensional characters whilst men are the complicated ones…

the ancient Greeks. In the Odyssey, gender inequality is expressed when Calypso is forced to allow Odysseus to leave her island by Zeus. In her speech to Hermes, Calypso complains that the male gods are hypocritical when it comes to relationships with mortals. The male gods are free from criticism when they take a mortal partner, but when a goddess lies with a mortal man it suddenly becomes taboo. Throughout her speech, Calypso appeals to the values and emotions of the gods in order to express…

In The Symposium translated by Robin Waterfield and The Odyssey translated by Andrew George, the concept of love is explored. In The Symposium, love is discussed at the dinner party hosted by Agathon, in which many Greek partygoers give their input, including Aristophanes. Aristophanes’ claim is that Love is what brings the halves together, the halves humans were split into by Zeus. Odysseus is on a quest that takes him from his kingdom and wife. Although Odysseus has relationships with other…

hospitality of the people he meets along his journey, but along the way he is making positive relationships which may be positive and negative for himself and others. First, Odysseus did not realize the effect of hospitality that Calypso had on him. It may be argued that Calypso had an affair with him, but she also acted very generous by allowing Odysseus to…

great deal of misfortune in his journey, the major misfortune was the disapproval of Poseidon and Zeus. The combined interference of Poseidon and Calypso prevented him from continuing his journey…

However, later in the poem, Odysseus will feel like Ogygia is a literal trap, due to his lack of resources, as well as a symbolic trap, as Calypso has sexual and material power over Odysseus. Odysseus, as a direct result of Calypso and her island,…

petty, cruel, and set on the destruction of the heroes. From the very beginning of the story, Athena (one of the major Goodness in the story) is helping out Odysseus. Her very first act was coaxing Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso’s island to tell Calypso that it was Zeus’s will that made Odysseus continue his journey home. Athena secures Odysseus future through other characters in the story, such as the Phaecian Princess Nausicaa. Athena has done minor things to help out Odysseus such as…

with. Once Odysseus left on his journey home tragedy struck many of times causing him to lose all his crew to death. He was the only survivor of it all. Alone at last Odysseus floated upon Ogygia island where the nymph Calypso lives. On that island he spent seven years with Calypso- seven years of betraying Penelope. On Ogygia island Odysseus spent a lot of time weeping for his homeland, and for Penelope. Some would say that this is proof of Odysseus’s loyalty to Penelope, however despite…