Place

Ogygiathe Ogygian island in this translation

Calypso's island · seven of the twenty years

Ogygia: alder, poplar and cypress, a vine across the mouth of the cave, four springs running away in different directions, and one very small figure on the shore facing an empty sea.
Ogygia: alder, poplar and cypress, a vine across the mouth of the cave, four springs running away in different directions, and one very small figure on the shore facing an empty sea.

Calypso's island, somewhere far out in the middle of the sea and off every shipping route: wooded, sweet-smelling, ringed with springs, and empty of people. Odysseus spends seven years here — longer than he spends anywhere else, and longer than all his adventures put together — with a goddess who loves him and nothing to do but look at the water. Butler's text calls it the Ogygian island.

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