Dr. Emily Hauser
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She lives alone on this island called Ogygia and she essentially kind of brings him in.
She gives him kind of food and drink as you would to kind of a guest.
But they also sleep together and they end up kind of spending seven years together together.
of his voyage of his return so a long long time that Odysseus is there now Odysseus's version and I feel like you know it's important we label it Odysseus's version because we get a lot of this from Odysseus is that she has been keeping him captive and that he hasn't been able to leave because he didn't have the tools that he needed to make a raft he didn't have a sail and it is only when after that seven year period Hermes then comes down from Zeus which is where we start the Odyssey it's only then that Odysseus is allowed to get free
could there be more truth or at least belief behind the story that like he did want to get off the island he simply just couldn't for seven whole years yeah I mean there is definitely kind of a sense of that kind of that desperation in that like you know if you're in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea on an island and you don't have the means to build a boat like it is really really hard to get off um
At the same time, you know, we also see Calypso in the Odyssey professing kind of the fact that she would love for Odysseus to stay and that she would make him immortal if he would stay with her.
So she obviously also has a vested interest in this.
So yes, I think we can kind of see Odysseus as someone who, you know, really was kind of wanting to get off.
On the other hand, you know, kind of, you know, he hasn't seven years of sex with Calypso, you know, I mean, he hasn't struggled that hard, has he?
It's not been too bad, has it?
Yeah, we've got 10 years there, yeah.
So we basically have got seven years with Calypso.
We've got one year with Circe that he's done on the way.
And then kind of the rest of it is probably puzzled together from all of those different stop offs that he does on his way.
And by the time we're kind of in the 20th year, that's the point at which he then kind of finally gets back to Ithaca.
Yeah, the return is about to happen.
And that's why, you know, the Phaeacians are so important to him because they are the moment where he suddenly gets this ship that is going to take him back to Ithaca.
And not just that, but these are kind of magic ships because they can move by themselves and they go, the poet says, as swift as a thought.
So the kind of idea is you just kind of think where you want to go and they'll just take you there.
So real kind of proper magic ships.
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