Calypso

This daughter of Atlas has got hold of poor unhappy Odysseus, and keeps trying by every kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his own chimneys.

And Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Odysseus should get home, we should first send Hermes to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to have his homecoming [ nostos].

So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Odysseus, and he, though he was longing for his return [ nostos] to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.

and still more that of Calypso, as of a goddess in her prime and kindly, dwelling apart by herself on an island.

and neither his former deeds consoled him, nor a goddess most beautiful and good who made much of him, so as to promise to make him immortal, but over all these prevailed his longing and love for his fatherland;

If, then, I too should say to you the words of Hermes, as he is represented in the Odyssey making his defense to Calypso for the message which, being unpleasant, he brought, perhaps you would say I am trifling, yet they must be said:

Hence the first rule in aiming at the mean is to avoid that extreme which is the more opposed to the mean, as Calypso advises — Steer the ship clear of yonder spray and surge.

A forest of varied and all kinds of trees, growing of itself around it, becomes almost a fence to it, so that even the island of Calypso, which Homer plainly admired above all others for beauty, is small in comparison.

O Cyclops, by thy sire Poseidon, by mighty Triton and Nereus, by Calypso and the daughters of Nereus, by the sacred billows and all the race of fishes!

And the bright goddess Calypso was joined to Odysseus in sweet love, and bore him Nausithous and Nausinous.