Arnold Böcklin
 


 
Odysseus and Calypso, 1883

    Calypso was a nymph who ruled over an island. Odysseus happened to shipwreck there during one of his voyages and Calypso fell in love with him and couldn't bear for him to leave. She kept him a virtual prisoner there for ten years.
 

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