This was most unfair, she reasoned, for after all she had rescued Odysseus from death as he drifted astride the keel of the same ship that Zeus had shattered with his lightning. For I am ready with all my heart to help you leave it. There was also compassion in her loving heart. Calypso 3 then gave him leave to make a boat and promised to stock it herself with bread, water and wine , and send a following wind so that he may reach Ithaca without difficulties. Straight away after this oath Calypso 3, disregarding the fact that just a little while ago she had protested against Zeus ' decision, told Odysseus that she did this because after all she had a righteous mind and a heart that, not being indeed of iron, had compassion.
Persuasion takes over.
That is why Calypso 3, who, after heaven's decision, saw her force ebb away, now resorted to persuasion, while she and Odysseus helped themselves to the delicacies that the goddess' maids had spread before them, saying that indeed Odysseus had no idea about the full measure of misery that he would have to endure before reaching Ithaca, declaring that if he did he would never leave Ogygia. She also invited him to become immortal and share her lovely home, claiming that she herself could not be inferior to Penelope , who was a mortal woman, and therefore unable to compete with the elegance and looks of a goddess. Odysseus ' final answer. I know full well of myself that wise Penelope is meaner to look upon than you in comeliness and in stature, for she is a mortal, while you are immortal and ageless. But even so I wish and long day by day to reach my home, and to see the day of my return.