Does Odysseus sleep with Calypso?

Calypso forces Odysseus to sleep with her against his will. These lines encourage us to condemn the powerful goddess's abuse of the powerless Odysseus.
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What goddess did Odysseus sleep with?

Calypso is an immortal goddess who holds Odysseus prisoner for seven years on the island where she lives and forces him to be her lover.
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Did Odysseus cheat on his wife with Calypso?

After that Odysseus traveled to Calypso's island. Not only did he cheat with Calypso in addition to Circe, but he stayed on her island for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.
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How long did Odysseus sleep with Calypso?

Calypso was so much in love with him that despite his refusal of her offers, she kept hoping and seducing Odysseus. Eventually, she made him her lover. They lived together for seven years in her breath-taking cave-home, and according to Hesiod, Calypso even gave birth to two kids: Nausithous and Nausinous.
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Does Odysseus fall in love with Calypso?

According to Homer, soon after Odysseus landed on the island of Ogygia, Odysseus met the minor goddess and nymph, Calypso. Calypso soon fell madly in love with Odysseus, and she forced the traveler to remain on the island as her husband and hostage.
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Homer's Odyssey Calypso and Nausicaa



Who did Calypso marry?

According to Homer's epic, the Odyssey, when Odysseus landed on Ogygia, Calypso fell in love with him and decided to keep him as her immortal husband.
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Why did Calypso curse Annabeth?

Calypso is first mentioned when Percy Jackson is forced to fight a number of Arai in Tartarus. The arai make curses real when they are destroyed, revealing that Calypso had cursed Annabeth for being Percy's love interest at the time.
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Who were Odysseus lovers?

The two goddesses with whom Odysseus has extended affairs are similar in that Circe is a devastatingly beautiful goddess-enchantress and Calypso is a devastatingly beautiful goddess-nymph; but they contrast in their motives toward and treatment of Odysseus.
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Does Odysseus fall in love with Circe?

She did just that to Odysseus' sailors when they reached her dwelling place, the secluded island of Aeaea. Odysseus, however, managed to trick her with the help of Hermes and, instead of becoming an animal, he became her lover for a year.
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What were Odysseus feelings when he was with Calypso?

What were Odysseus' feelings when he was held captive by Calypso and Circe? He didn't feel any emotion, he just wanted to go home. What happens to the men who eat Lotus? They never want to leave, they want to stay on the island forever.
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Does Odysseus willingly cheat on Penelope?

He was also married to Penelope the whole time he was trying to make his way back home. During this time Odysseus met a witch named Circe and then a nymph named Calypso. Not only did he cheat with Calypso in addition to Circe, but he stayed on her island for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him.
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Was Odysseus faithful to wife?

Even though Odysseus has been stranded from home for many years, he still remains loyal to his wife. Odysseus is truly loyal to Penelope because he leaves Ogygia (where he was trapped) as soon as possible, puts all of his effort into making it home to his wife, and even flirts with Princess Nausicaa to get him home.
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What was Odysseus biggest mistake?

Odysseus has made some mistakes. No one's saying otherwise. He blinded a Cyclops, he invoked the wrath of Poseidon, and remember that time he got distracted by a sexy sea-witch for an entire year? (Full disclosure, he also stole some cheese.) But by far his biggest mistake was hiring his crew.
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How old is Calypso in the Odyssey?

In ricks books she's around 16, and what I meant is that the brain's age correlates to the bodies age during development, were calypso's brain fully developed, her mental age would grow, while her body stayed the same, though since it's not done developing since her age was 16 when she was put on the island.
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Did Circe and Odysseus have a child?

Telegonus, in Greek mythology, especially the Telagonia of Eugammon of Cyrene, the son of the hero Odysseus by the sorceress Circe. Telegonus went to Ithaca in search of his father, whom he killed unwittingly.
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Why did Odysseus stay with Calypso?

In Homer's Odyssey, Calypso attempts to keep the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband, while he also gets to enjoy her sensual pleasures forever. According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner by force at Ogygia for seven years.
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Who slept with Circe?

Five days after Hermes's visit, Odysseus leaves Calypso's island. Why does Odysseus sleep with Circe? When Odysseus fails to transform into a pig after drinking Circe's potion, Circe realizes he must be the famed “man of twists and turns” and invites him into her bed.
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Does Calypso still love Percy?

Calypso seems to still have romantic feelings for Percy. But she was angered that his promise was not made true by the Olympians after the Battle of Manhattan. Gaea offers Calypso to free her from her prison and raise Percy from Tartarus so that she could be with him if she kills Leo Valdez.
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What book does Annabeth cheat on Percy?

When Annabeth cheats on Percy he is broken on the inside.
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Do Leo and Percy talk about Calypso?

In the last Hoo book, the Blood of Olympus -- and I'm pretty sure the last time the two of them ever talk to each other -- Leo is the one angry at Percy about Calypso. Nice spin on things.
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What did Calypso do when she was released?

After being freed from her human bonds, Calypso yelled in her native tongue, seemingly as insults to the pirates but in reality it was an incantation, before exploding outwards in a shower of crabs.
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What fatal mistake does Odysseus make at the end of Book 9?

Odysseus makes the mistake of telling Polyphemus his real name and he makes the mistake of taunting the cyclops. The result of the taunting conducted by Odysseus was rocks being hurled his way by Polyphemus. The result of him yelling his name at Polyphemus is Polyphemus praying to his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus.
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Why does Odysseus finally tell Polyphemus his real name?

Q: Why does Odysseus tell the Cyclops his name is Nobody? Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is Nobody as he knows that when he attacks, the Cyclops will cry out and be asked by other Cyclopes if it needs help. Of course, the Cyclops replies that “nobody” is bothering or killing it.
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Who kills the most of Odysseus's crew?

They do so one afternoon as Odysseus sleeps; when the Sun finds out, he asks Zeus to punish Odysseus and his men. Shortly after the Achaeans set sail from Thrinacia, Zeus kicks up another storm, which destroys the ship and sends the entire crew to its death beneath the waves.
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Who betrayed Penelope in the Odyssey?

Melantho is not a well-known character in the poem. She is Penelope's maid and the sister of Melanthius in Odyssey. In the poem, Melantho betrays Penelope. She appears to be more loyal to the suitors.
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