Calypso ( Mythology ) - Wikipedia Calypso ( Mythology ) For other uses, see Calypso. Calypso ( Kalypso ) Detail from Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton Abode Ogygia Children By some accounts Latinus, by others Nausithous and Nausinous Parents Atlas Calypso ( / kəˈlɪpsoʊ / ; Greek : Καλυψώ, Kalypsō ) was a nymph in Greek mythology, who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to the Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years. Contents 1 Genealogy 2 Name 3 Mythology 4 Gallery 5 References 6 Sources 7 External links Genealogy Calypso is generally said to be the daughter of the Titan Atlas and Pleione. Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus. Apollodorus includes the name Calypso in his list of Nereids, the daughters of Nereus and Doris. Name The etymology of Calypso 's name is from καλύπτω ( kalyptō ), meaning `` to cover '', `` to conceal '', `` to hide '', or `` to deceive ''. According to Etymologicum Magnum her name means καλύπτουσα το διανοούμενον ( kalýptousa to dianooúmenon ), i.e. `` concealing the knowledge '', which combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα ( dolóessa ), meaning subtle or wily, justifies the hermetic character of Calypso and her island. καλύπτω is derived from Proto - Indo - European * ḱel -, making it cognate with the English word Hell. Mythology In Homer 's Odyssey, Calypso attempts to keep the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband. According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner at Ogygia for seven years, Calypso enchants Odysseus with her singing as she moves to and fro, weaving on her loom with a golden shuttle. Odysseus soon comes to wish for circumstances to change. Odysseus can no longer bear being separated from his wife Penelope and wants to go to Calypso to tell her. His patron goddess Athena asks Zeus to order the release of Odysseus from the island, and Zeus orders the messenger Hermes to tell Calypso to set Odysseus free, for it was not his destiny to live with her forever. She angrily comments on how the gods hate goddesses having affairs with mortals, but eventually concedes, sending Odysseus on his way after providing him with wine, bread, and the materials for a raft. Homer does not mention any children by Calypso. By some accounts, which come after the Odyssey, Calypso bore Odysseus a son, Latinus, though Circe is usually given as Latinus ' mother. In other accounts Calypso bore Odysseus two children, Nausithous and Nausinous. The story of Odysseus and Calypso has some close resemblances to the interactions between Gilgamesh and Siduri in the Epic of Gilgamesh in that `` the lone female plies the inconsolable hero - wanderer with drink and sends him off to a place beyond the sea reserved for a special class of honoured people '' and `` to prepare for the voyage he has to cut down and trim timbers. '' Gallery Calypso, blonde - haired goddess by Jan Styka ( 20th century ) Calypsoby George Hitchcock ( about 1906 ) The Goddess Calypso rescues Ulysses Cornelius van Poelenburgh ( 1630 ) Calypso calling heaven and earth to witness her sincere affection to Ulysses by Angelica Kauffman ( 18th - century ) Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton ( 18th century ) Mercury ordering Calypso to release Odysseus by Gerard de Lairesse ( 1676 - 1682 ) Odysseus as guest at the nymph Calypso by Hendrick van Balen ( circa 1616 ) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus by Gerard de Lairesse ( circa 1670 ) Odysseus und Kalypso by Arnold Böcklin ( 1883 ) Calypso by Henri Lehmann ( 1869 ) Calypso 's Isle by Herbert James Draper ( 1897 ) Ulysses on Calypso 's island by Ditlev Blunck ( 1830 ) Hermes bei Calypso und Odysseus by Hubert Maurer Hermes orders Calypso to release Odysseus by John Flaxman ( 1810 ) References Jump up ^ Homer, Odyssey, 1.14, 1.51 -- 54, 7.245 ; Apollodorus, E. 7.24. She is sometimes referred to as Atlantis ( Ατλαντίς ), which means the daughter of Atlas, see the entry Ατλαντίς in Liddell & Scott, and also Hesiod, Theogony 938. Jump up ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, Preface Jump up ^ Hesiod, Theogony 359 ; Homeric Hymn 2.422. According to Caldwell, p. 49 n. 359, the Hesiod Oceanid is `` probably not '' the same ; see also West 1966, p. 267 359. καὶ ἱμερόεσσα Καλυψώ ; Hard, p. 41. Jump up ^ Apollodorus, 1.2. 7 Jump up ^ Entry καλύπτω at LSJ Jump up ^ Homer, Odyssey 7.259 Jump up ^ Apollodorus, E. 7.24 Jump up ^ Hesiod, Theogony 1011 Jump up ^ See Hesiod, Theogony 1019, Sir James George Frazer in his notes to Apollodorus, E. 7.24, says that these verses `` are probably not by Hesiod but have been interpolated by a later poet of the Roman era in order to provide the Latins with a distinguished Greek ancestry ''. Jump up ^ Dalley, S. ( 1989 ) `` Myths from Mesopotamia '' Oxford University Press, Oxford, NY. Sources Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod 's Theogony, Focus Publishing / R. Pullins Company ( June 1, 1987 ). ISBN 978 - 0 - 941051 - 00 - 2. Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley - Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978 - 0 - 631 - 20102 - 1. `` Calypso '' p. 86 Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology : Based on H.J. Rose 's `` Handbook of Greek Mythology '', Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn - White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH. D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 2 ), in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn - White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae in Apollodorus ' Library and Hyginus ' Fabuae : Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 978 - 0 - 87220 - 821 - 6. Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ). `` Calypso '' West, M.L. ( 1966 ), Hesiod : Theogony, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 814169 - 6. External links Chisholm, Hugh, ed. ( 1911 ). `` Calypso ''. Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed. ). 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Question: who did odysseus stay with for 7 years
Answer: Calypso