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Calypso
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tags: [mythology]
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Definition:in the Greek mythology a nymph, daughter of Atlas, queen of the island of Ogygia, who by her fascinating charms detained Ulysses beside her for 7 of the 10 years of his wanderings home from Troy; she died of grief on his departure.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)
painting: by Cornelius van Poelenburgh, (1630) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21849092
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She did not believe that he had ever admired her hands, or her long neck, or her graceful movements, which had made all the girls at school call her Calypso (doubtless from their familiarity with Telemaque).
George Eliot. Felix Holt the Radical (1866)
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Ulysses, though he detested Calypso with her sugared voice, yet he embraced Penelope with her rude distaff.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Calypso in her caves constrain'd his stay,
With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay;
In vain-for now the circling years disclose
The day predestined to reward his woes.
Homer. The Odyssey (Pope translation)
Calypso is mentioned 36 times in The Odyssey
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