CALYPSO in Classic Quotes

1  Thereon Minerva began to tell them of the many sufferings of Ulysses, for she pitied him away there in the house of the nymph Calypso.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V

2  When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Mercury, "Mercury, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home."

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V

3  I can see him in an island sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso, who is keeping him prisoner, and he cannot reach his home for he has no ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK IV

4  There he is, lying in great pain in an island where dwells the nymph Calypso, who will not let him go; and he cannot get back to his own country, for he can find neither ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK V

5  And Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Ulysses should get home, we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to return."

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I

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

The Odyssey By Homer
ContextHighlight   In BOOK I