Calypso facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Calypso |
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Detail from Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton
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| Abode | Ogygia |
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| Children | By some accounts Latinus, by others Nausithous and Nausinous |
| Parents | Atlas, Pleione |
Kalypso or Calypso is a nymph in Greek mythology, who lives on the island Ogygia. This island was so hidden that no man would find it twice. Calypso was the daughter of Atlas so she was placed on the island and not allowed to leave.
In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus comes to her island after escaping from the sea, and the death of his men. Odysseus stayed with her for seven years. But then the god Hermes came and told her that the gods said that she had to let Odysseus go. Calypso promised Odysseus immortality (that he would live forever) if he stayed, but he wanted to go back to his wife Penelope, and so he left her.
Images for kids
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Calypso, blonde-haired goddess by Jan Styka (20th century)
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Calypsoby George Hitchcock (about 1906)
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Calypso calling heaven and earth to witness her sincere affection to Ulysses by Angelica Kauffman (18th-century)
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Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton (18th century)
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Odysseus as guest at the nymph Calypso by Hendrick van Balen (circa 1616)
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Ulysses on Calypso's island by Ditlev Blunck (1830)
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Hermes bei Calypso und Odysseus by Hubert Maurer
See also
In Spanish: Calypso para niños
