Calipso

Calypso

Who was Calypso?

When Odysseus and some of him crew, pass the sirens islands, is the eleventh adventure of the Odyssey, they finished in Ogygia island of Calypso.This adventure was the number 11. Calypso was the daughter of the Titan Atlas. Odysseus lived with Calypso about eight years. Calypso, who wanted to make Odysseus her husband, was planning on making the hero immortal. Reluctantly Calypso consented to help Odysseus return home. Odysseus built a boat. He left Ogygia and sailed in fair weather for seventeen days.

Ginés Serrán-Pagán, "Calypso of Ceuta” he born Ceuta, Spain,

Zeus In Greek mythology, Zeus is a deity sometimes referred to as "father of gods and men," who rules the Olympian gods like a father to a family, so that even those who were not his natural children address him as such.He is the king of the gods and oversees the universe.He is the god of the sky and thunder and therefore of energy. His attributes include the scepter and crown (as symbols of his power), the thunderbolt, the eagle, the bull, and the oak. In addition to his Indo-European heritage, the classic "cloud-gatherer" Zeus also obtained certain iconographic features from ancient Near Eastern cultures, such as the scepter. Zeus was commonly depicted

by Greek artists in two poses: standing, advancing with a raised thunderbolt in his right hand, and sitting majestically.

Hermes In Greek mythology, Hermes is the Olympian messenger god, of borders and travelers who cross them, of ingenuity and commerce in general, of cunning, of thieves and liars, and the one who guides souls to the underworld, to Hades.1 In later Roman mythology it was referred to as Mercury. Son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maya. The Homeric hymn to Hermes invokes him as the «of multiform ingenuity (polytropos), of cunning thoughts, thief, oxen rustler, chief of dreams, night spy, guardian of the gates, who was soon to show off glorious deeds before the immortal gods ”.2 Hermes is also the protagonist of many myths, such as, for example, that of Philemon and Baucis.3

The ancient and modern location of the Calypso myth is on the current Perejil island, next to Ceuta.

The ancient historical sources that speak about the myth and the geographical localization ❏ In the writings of Asclepríades de Mirlea, who was residing in Hispania around 100 BC, and which have come to us through transcripts of Strabo, who was born 63 or 64 BC, a city called Odysseia was described which had a temple dedicated to Athena.

❏ Crates de Malos, who was a cartographer who lived between 180 BC. and in 150 BC, he made several writings on the locations of the adventures that Homer narrated and located the island of Calypso in the Iberian peninsula.

By Erika Badenas , Izarbe Biel, Irune Pirón,Carmelo Pirri,Giovanni Andolina