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Calypso
The nymph who, in love with the mortal Ulysses, kept him seven years on her isle; proof a goddess may love beneath her.
Reading notes
- The Loves §2.17 Calypso
The nymph who loved the mortal Ulysses and kept him seven years; a goddess paired with a man below her.
- The Art of Love §2.6 Calypso
The nymph who kept Ulysses on her island and was charmed by his telling of the Trojan War.
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.10 fair Calypso
Calypso, the sea-nymph who kept Ulysses on her island; Ovid contrasts her pleasant detention with his own grim exile, as he measures his sufferings against the Odyssey's.