| Yesterday
a wonderful thing occurred. It has just been revealed that Odysseus is not dead after all!
He has spent the last seven years on Calypso’s island, Ortygia.
After the terrible shipwreck of seven years ago it seemed that Odysseus
had perished along with his men but the goddess Athena it seems had not forsaken him. Our
hero was washed up on the island of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of Thetis.
Although Odysseus has lived well these past years he has in fact been a
prisoner. Calypso has kept him on the island because she loves him very much and
wouldn’t let him go back home. The beautiful Calypso offered Odysseus immortality if
he stayed with her forever but he longed to return to Ithaca and the gods it seems
have smiled on him.
Athena must have persuaded Zeus to have pity on Odysseus because
Hermes, the messenger of the gods, was sent to Ortygia to speak with Calypso. |
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He
commanded her, in the name of Zeus, to free Odysseus and the nymph had no choice but to
obey.
The latest news we have is that Odysseus has left the island on a raft
that he built himself, leaving the heart-broken Calypso behind. Now Odysseus is on his way
home once more. Will our hero get home safely at last? Or will his enemy Poseidon send
more storms to thwart Odysseus once he hears that he has been freed? We shall see.
Reporters: Laura
& Katie
The beautiful nymph, Calypso |
