Instructed by Calypso, he keeps Orion and its companion constellations on his left and sails for seventeen days without sight of land. Five days later, provisioned with food and drink, he sets sail. "You'll understand if I'm suspicious."Īnd so the next morning she leads him to a pine wood and gives him tools to build a raft. "What kind of trick is this?" asks Odysseus, who is famous for tricks himself. "Yes, though she's nothing in comparison to your radiant self, I'd gladly endure what the sea deals out." "If I told you that there's heartbreak and shipwreck in store," asks the goddess, "would you trade immortality and me for that mortal wench?" Every day for the last seven years he's sat on the same rock gazing out to sea, weeping for home and Penelope. "And next time, do God's bidding with a better grace."Ĭalypso knows where to find Odysseus. "Oh very well, there's no arguing with Zeus. "You jealous gods! Can't you bear to see one of us keep a mortal of her own?" cries Calypso. "I bring a message from Zeus: Send Odysseus home." "I'm not here because I enjoy crossing the desolate sea," says Hermes. Seating Hermes, she puts before him nectar and ambrosia, the sustenance of the gods. She's suprised by the visit but extends hospitality before asking its cause. He finds her at her hearth in the midst of a forest redolent with cedar smoke and thyme.
At her prompting, Zeus dispatches Hermes with a message for Calypso.īinding on his magic sandals, Hermes skims over the waves to the island paradise where the nymph has detained Odysseus. Soon after dawn breaks on Mount Olympus, Athena puts the case of Odysseus once more before the gods. The hero Odysseus in Homer's epic from Greek mythology
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