Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso as one of the Oceanid daughters of Tethys and Oceanus. Her mother is mostly unnamed, but Hyginus wrote that it was Pleione, mother of the Pleiades. Family Ĭalypso is generally said to be the daughter of the Titan Atlas. An alternative explanation is that Calypso derives from versions of "Calí" + "Ópsis", meaning "Beautiful Sight". According to Etymologicum Magnum, her name means "concealing the knowledge" ( καλύπτουσα το διανοούμενον, kalýptousa to dianooúmenon), which – combined with the Homeric epithet δολόεσσα ( dolóessa, meaning "subtle" or "wily") – justifies the reclusive character of Calypso and her island. The name "Calypso" may derive from the Ancient Greek καλύπτω ( kalyptō), meaning "to cover", "to conceal", or "to hide". She promised Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but Odysseus preferred to return home. In Greek mythology, Calypso ( / k ə ˈ l ɪ p s oʊ/ Greek: Καλυψώ, "she who conceals") was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to Homer's Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years. Pleiades, Hyades, Hyas or the Oceanids and the Potamoiīy some accounts Latinus, by others Nausithous and Nausinous, the Cephalonians Detail from Calypso receiving Telemachus and Mentor in the Grotto by William Hamilton
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