Initially, Calypso becomes angry, but does not want to anger the gods by disobeying and ultimately agrees to let him go.
Initially, Calypso becomes angry, but does not want to anger the gods by disobeying and ultimately agrees to let him go.
Athena told her father Zeus that Odysseus wanted to go home to see his wife and son so Zeus told Hermes to go and tell Calypso to let Odysseus leave her island. She agreed and told Odysseus to make a boat and she gave him food and wine for his journey
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Calypso initially resists releasing Odysseus because she has feelings for him and wishes for him to stay with her. However, she ultimately agrees to let him go when Zeus orders her to do so, realizing that it is his fate to return home to his wife, Penelope.
To leave Calypso's island, Odysseus must first persuade the nymph Calypso to let him go, as she has kept him captive and desires to make him her immortal husband. After being instructed by the god Hermes, who delivers a message from Zeus, Calypso ultimately agrees to help Odysseus build a ship and provides him with provisions for his journey. This act of liberation emphasizes the theme of yearning for freedom and the struggle against divine forces.
Odysseus ended up on Calypso's island, Ogygia, after being shipwrecked while trying to return home to Ithaca following the Trojan War. Calypso, a nymph, fell in love with him and kept him there for several years, offering him immortality if he stayed. Despite her offers, Odysseus yearned to return to his wife, Penelope, and his home, illustrating his desire for loyalty and the human experience over eternal life. Ultimately, the gods intervened, compelling Calypso to let him go.
Because Poseidon cursed him and refuses to let him home. Odysseus had blinded Poseidon's son, Polyphemus the Cyclops, and bragged about it, inciting anger in the god.
Hermes tells Calypso to let Odysseus go.
Hermes flies in and tells her. Calypso becomes furious at their request and calls the gods jealous that she was sleeping with a mortal man when they slept with mortal women all the time. She still helps Odysseus leave, however. Athena was the one who wanted Odysseus off the island, not Zeus. Zeus simply complied with her wishes.
Poseidon let's Odysseus live because it is the will of Zeus and the other gods that Odysseus eventually be fated to return home. Poseidon dares not go up against the fates.
She loves Odysseus and wants to keep him on her island, but Zeus wants her to let Odysseus go.
No. Though Eurymachus attempts to bargain with Odysseus, Odysseus' fury is only satiated by killing them all.