Dr. Emily Hauser

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The Ancients · Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And so they really can kind of see that and sympathize with each other.

But you also get other gods and also lesser gods as well coming in, like the nymph Calypso or Circe, who is the daughter of Helios, the sun god.

So all kinds of other gods as well.

So Calypso's great.

Her name means the concealer in Greek.

It comes from calyptin, which means to hide or conceal.

So already we're getting this sense that she's sort of hiding Odysseus away on her island.

He is there for seven years.

We find that out as Hermes flies down onto the island of Aegidja and demands that she let Odysseus go.

And Calypso makes this extraordinary request where she says, essentially, I want him to stay with me and I would make him immortal.

If I could, if he would stay, I'd make him immortal.

So, you know, a real sense that Calypso wants Odysseus to stay behind.

But we see Odysseus on the shore of her island, weeping, thinking back to Ithaca, thinking of Penelope.

So he really kind of does want to go home.

And eventually she accedes to Hermes' request and she gives him what he needs, which is he needs the tools to make a raft and he needs a sail and clothes to get on his voyage.

Yeah, well, exactly.

And there's almost a sense of kind of the right divine order of things being upended.

You know, a goddess does not live with a mortal is kind of what Hermes is saying.

And in fact, Calypso speaks back and she says, well, actually, there's plenty of examples I can give you.

So she's quite sassy about her response.

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