he mourns for Ithaca, his family and his old life. He also sleeps with Calypso several times, though he never truly falls in love with her.
For seven years!
7 years
Weeping.
After leaving Calypso's island in Book V of Homer's "The Odyssey", Odysseus faces many challenges on his journey home. He encounters a storm created by the wrath of Poseidon, he is shipwrecked on the island of the Phaeacians, and he is finally helped by Princess Nausicaa. Ultimately, he reaches the safety of the Phaeacian court.
Odysseus ends up at calypsos island where he is standed there for seven years. There he meets the immortal calypso and fatally falls for her just as she falls for him. She keeps him on her island by not giving him the tools he needs to make a raft.
Athena told her father Zeus that Odysseus wanted to go home to see his wife and son so Zeus told Hermes to go and tell Calypso to let Odysseus leave her island. She agreed and told Odysseus to make a boat and she gave him food and wine for his journey
Ogygia
The gift of bribary
The gods send a letter to Calypso so she can release Odysseus.
Calypso maids giggle when they see "o" because it alludes to the shape of a man's mouth when he is saying the letter "o," which is seen as humorous to them. It is a playful and flirty reaction that adds to the fun and light-hearted nature of calypso music and performance.
Unhappy, but yielding as it was the gods who bade her to do so. She never really held affection for him in the first place.
Polyphemus the cyclops.