Book V · Episode 2 of 5
Calypso Releases Odysseus
Calypso frees Odysseus, bids farewell
Scenes
- Calypso Offers a Raft — Calypso tells Odysseus to build a raft
- Odysseus still weeps daily, pining for home
- Calypso tells him at last to grieve no more
- She stocks the raft with bread, wine, water
- She promises warm clothes and fair wind
- The outcome rests with the gods, she warns
- Odysseus Demands an Oath — Odysseus makes Calypso swear by Styx
- Odysseus suspects a trick behind her offer
- Not even ships dare sail so perilous a sea
- Calypso smiles and strokes his forehead
- He is called perverse for doubting her
- She swears by earth, heaven, and the Styx
- Calypso’s Final Appeal — Odysseus spurns eternity for Penelope
- The two dine together in the cave once more
- She warns he’d stay, knowing what fate holds
- Calypso claims to rival Penelope’s beauty
- Odysseus calls her deathless, his wife mortal
- He vows to bear whatever the sea still brings