Calypso

A nymph or a minor goddess. Calypso was the daughter of Atlas. She lived on an island called Ogygia. Her only companions and attendants were nymphs.

In the Odyssey, the hero Odysseus found himself shipwrecked at the narrow strait between the monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis. Odysseus managed to swim safely to the island of Ogygia. Calypso fell in love with Odysseus. Although he stayed on the island for seven years and became her lover, he rejected her offer of immortality and living with her as her husband.

When Hermes arrived and told her she had to aid Odysseus to return home, she was reluctant, but bowed down to Zeus' will when she was threatened. Calypso couldn't persuade Odysseus to stay with her. Calypso gave her lover the tools he needed to build a raft. She gave him plenty of supplies when he left. But Poseidon would destroy his raft later, before he managed to swim to the island of the Phaeacians.

By Odysseus, Calypso became the mother of two sons, Nausithoüs and Nausinoüs. According to Telegony, Calypso was also the mother of Telegonus or Teledamus, but Circe was usually said to be Telegonus' mother.

According to Theogony, Hesiod listed Calypso as an Oceanid, unless this nymph was another person. Other than the name, there was no connection between Hesiod's Oceanid and Homer's Calypso.