Place in Homer’s Odyssey
Ogygia
Calypso's far, secluded isle
The island where Calypso keeps Odysseus for seven years, off every sea-road and far from the other gods. It is where the poem finds him, sitting on the shore in tears.
Bonds
- Calypso dwells in Ogygia — her cave, apart from the gods
Appears in
- Book I Visit of Athena to Telemachus
- Book IV Conference of Telemachus and Menelaus
- Book V Departure of Odysseus from Calypso
- Book VII Reception of Odysseus by Alcinoüs
- Book XII The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
- Book XVII Return of Odysseus to His Palace
Scenes
- Athena pleads for Odysseus — Book I. Athena begs Zeus, plans to send Hermes
- Odysseus’ Supplication — Book VI. Odysseus begs Nausicaä, who calms maids
- Arete’s Question — Book VII. Odysseus retells Calypso, shipwreck, Nausicaä
- Adrift to Calypso — Book XII. Odysseus escapes Charybdis, drifts to Calypso
- Night of Shared Tales — Book XXIII. Penelope, Odysseus share their tales