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In Greek mythology, Calypso (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ, romanized: Kalupsō, lit. 'she who conceals') [1] was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years against his will.
In Greek mythology, Calypso (/ k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ Kalypso means 'she who conceals' or 'like the hidden tide' [1]) [2] is the name of several nymphs, the most well known being: Calypso, the nymph who, in Homer's Odyssey, kept Odysseus with her on her island of Ogygia for seven years. [3]
Odysseus and Calypso in the caves of Ogygia. Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625). Ogygia (/ oʊ ˈ dʒ ɪ dʒ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Ὠγυγίη, romanized: Ōgygíē [ɔːɡyɡíɛː], or Ὠγυγία Ōgygíā [ɔːɡyɡíaː]) is an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas.
Odysseus builds a raft and is given clothing, food, and drink by Calypso. When Poseidon learns that Odysseus has escaped, he wrecks the raft, but helped by a veil given by the sea nymph Ino, Odysseus swims ashore on Scherie, the island of the Phaeacians. Naked and exhausted, he hides in a pile of leaves and falls asleep.
In some myths, Clymene was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene. [10] Clymene, another Oceanid, was given as the wife to King Merops of Aethiopia and was, by Helios, the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades. [11] Others include: Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the ...
Circe (/ ˈ s ər s iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη : Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. [2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse.
Porphyry agrees with Numenius of Apamea that the Odyssey is a symbolic description of man's successive passing through genesis (Greek: γένεσις, 'origin'). He interprets the cave of the nymphs as an allegorical image of the relationship between the soul and genesis at the end of Odysseus' journey.
Leukothea, Goddess of Sailors. In Greek mythology, Leucothea (/ lj uː ˈ k oʊ θ i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λευκοθέα, romanized: Leukothéa, lit. 'white goddess'), sometimes also called Leucothoe (Ancient Greek: Λευκοθόη, romanized: Leukothóē), was one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, in this case as a transformed nymph.