I Stayed With Calypso On Ogyia

I have think about this question when I was reading the book. I did not want him to make that decision, but I was very curious what if he decided to stay with Calypso. If he stayed with her, he would not be happy in rest of his life and after few years, he would try to escape from her. In addition, when his family find about this, they would be very disappointed. He might loose faith from a lot of people not just from his family.

Despite Calypso being a character who defies typical constraints, she is not always the model of a defiant woman. In spite of the fact that she is repeatedly used by Homer to show disobedience against the role that is expected of her, she still shows characteristics of a normal female character in an epic poem. When Hermes comes to visit her, she sets “a table with ambrosia” and “a bowl of rosy nectar” (Homer, p. 386). Setting the table for a man is a sign of respect and shows that she accepts her role of catering towards the opposite sex. This is a crucial moment as Calypso has continuously shown contempt for a woman’s conventional duties. When she is introduced, she is described as sitting in her home “singing in a lovely voice as she wove at her loom with a golden shuttle” (Homer, p. 386). The loom is a direct symbol of a tamed woman, reiterated by Penelope’s extensive use of it throughout the epic. When Homer describes Calypso on her loom, he refers to her as

When I did, I regretted looking back. Black billowed, even darker than the darkness, hiding who

It shows him telling her how she is more beautiful than his own wife and how she is a mortal which basically means that she will age and loose her beauty whereas calypso's beauty will stay forever.

The Veldt seemed to be a really scary place with strong vibrations sending alerts of ‘Danger’.

I awoke to a cacophony of screams, both of excitement and of pain. I jolted up quickly, unable to control my own muscles or vocal chords, as if a spectre was holding me back with airy fingers of death.

He tricks Polyphemus into intoxication. While vulnerable, he strikes the Cyclops in the eye blinding him. While blinded, the Cyclops opens the cave in which Odysseus and his men were locked into by a heavy rock only moveable by an incredibly large and strong being could open freeing the troops. On the island with Calypso, he tells her he is only homesick while concealing the truth that he is deeply missing his wife. Hence, leaving her exposed into helping him return home.

Calypso is viewed as Odysseus’ lover who offers him immortality instead of her hand in marriage. The only reason Odysseus refused immortality is because “a woman’s promise of immortality will kill a man” due to the untrustworthy nature of women (Barnes 130). This slander of immortality from a woman’s love is caused by the patriarchal society which “changed the way it [immortality] was to be achieved” (Barnes 135). Instead of receiving immortality through a woman it could “only be achieved through male heroics in battle” (Barnes 135) which is why Odysseus says, “A hero’s funeral then, my glory spread by comrades—now what a wretched death I’m doomed to die” (Od. 5.44-45). The cause of switching the means of immortality is because the patriarchal society “says that the constant is women’s ineffectiveness to bring it about”, such as Calypso not being able to give Odysseus immortality since she could not defeat the will of Zeus (Barnes 132). Calypso’s portrayal as a seductress and attempt to seduce Odysseus with immortality exist because of the patriarchal society that was present when the Odyssey was

From the Woman in the odyssey we can tell that Ancient Greeks valued many qualities: hospitality, love, faithfulness, strength, bravery and humility. Women were mainly judged by their looks. They didn't have as much respect as men. They were only paid attention to if they were goddesses, like athena; if they had kingdoms; or their husband or children were someone important as in the case of Penelope, Odysseus’ wife.

Despite the fact that Odysseus was with Calypso and Circe he still claims to be faithful. “… the enchantress desired me, and detained me in her hall. But in my heart I never gave consent “(I am the Lartes’ Son) Odysseus claims that he was faithful to his wife in his heart but he stayed with Calypso for seven years willingly when he could have left at any time to go back home to his wife. He is also easily persuaded by Circe to stay with her longer than needed. “Now Circe loveliest of all immortals persuades Odysseus to stay with her” Long after Circe turned his crew back to humans so they could leave, the Goddess was still able to convince him to stay longer than needed, keeping him away from his

Odysseus arrives on Calypso’s island alone, after the loss of his men and ship. Calypso rescues him and loves and cares for him in her cave. At first, it seems like Odysseus doesn’t seem much to mind her taking care of him, but over time it is plainly evident that he is unhappy with her. When Hermes arrives on Calypso’s island to give her the message from Zeus to release Odysseus, he is bawling on the beach a day-long activity for him. Calypso is holding him with her by force; she has no companions to help him back to Ithaka, nor has she a ship to send him in. Athena pleads with Zeus to give Odysseus good fortune, saying that "he lies away on an island suffering strong pains in the palace of the nymph Kalypso, and she detains him by constraint, and he cannot make his way to his country, for he has not any ships by him, nor any companions who can convey him back

In this section of the story the reader discovers Odysseus on the island of Calypso, a sweet nymph who has desired and detained Odysseus on her island for seven long years. However, Zeus believes it is time for Odysseus to head homeward and sends Hermes to release Odysseus from Calypso. Calypso agrees to let Odysseus escape after one last dinner where Calypso offers to make Odysseus immortal. Odysseus denies the temptation explaining he longs for his home and his wife, Penelope. Therefore, Odysseus constructs a raft which Hermes gave him and sails to the island Scheria; there he conceals himself under a pile of leaves and falls into a deep sleep.

Homer characterizes Calypso as a beautiful goddess who loves and deeply cares about Odysseus through her actions and her dialogue with the man of twists and turns, Odysseus. In the novel, The Odyssey, Odysseus is stranded on an island with an exquisite nymph named Calypso. There, Calypso falls in love with Odysseus, but sadly for her, the feeling is not mutual.

“I know you slaves are coming. Prepare to meet your doom!” said Kronos, or one of his holograms. Zephyros was

If I had been a boy, my birth in a bountiful year would have marked me as lucky, a child with a special destiny to fulfil. But daughters were curses. A daughter had to be married off before she could even enter heaven, and dowries beggared families for generations. Gods with infinite memories visited the girl children on women who needed to be punished for sins committed in other incarnations. My mother’s past must have been heavy with wrongs. (Jasmine