Calypso (mythology)

Calypso (Greek Καλυψώ "hidden" or " hider ") is a sea nymph in Greek mythology, who lives on the otherwise uninhabited island of Ogygia. You should be a daughter of the Titan Atlas.

Maybe the same or a different Kalypso is in the Theogony of Hesiod as Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, performed, and even with the mentioned in the Libraries of Apollodorus Nereid Calypso, daughter of Nereus and Doris, it could be the same shape.

Myth

Odyssey

The Odyssey begins with the excited of Athena counsel of the Olympian gods, that the pursuit of Poseidon Odysseus finally to return home from Calypso's island of Ogygia. In the fifth song of the same epic Homer describes how the " sublime " and "beautiful curly " Calypso loves the shipwrecked Odysseus and seven years ( in other mythographers less in length) stops by. Although Kalypso the hero immortality and eternal youth promises, if he stays with her, wants Odysseus, who knows the hardships that await him in the underworld since his trip to the realm of shadows from his own experience, to leave them to to Ithaca to his wife Penelope return. Finally, Zeus orders Calypso - transmitted by the messenger god Hermes - release Odysseus. Ungern obeying, they supplied him with tools to build a raft, and later also with travel fare.

Progeny

Homer mentions no progeny to Calypso. Only in post-Homeric traditions Calypso and Odysseus sons are attributed. Apollodorus mentions in his Epitome Latinus, the general but is regarded as son of Circe. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Calypso Odysseus has two sons and Nausithous Nausinoos born.

Modern adaptations

• In astronomy, a moon of Saturn ( Calypso ) and the asteroid (53 ) are named after the nymph Calypso.
• In botany, a genus of orchids exist with the scientific name Calypso: see Norne ( orchids).
• A research vessel of Jacques -Yves Cousteau was the name of the nymph: see Calypso (ship).
• Alfred Döblin published 1910 Conversations with Calypso, where he designed a critique of the identical, targeted subject on the basis of a philosophical conversation and music with an " experience - I " opposes.
• Michael Köhlmeier told in his 1997 novel Kalypso (ISBN 978-3492039659 ) is a modern version of the encounter between Odysseus and the nymph Calypso.
• In the second and third part of the trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean Tia Dalma occurs, played by Naomie Harris, as a witch and lover of Davy Jones. At the end of the third part she reveals herself as Calypso.

References

• Hermann Guntert: Kalypso, Halle / Saale 1919.