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Calypso , nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years. Although she offered to make him immortal if he would remain, Odysseus spurned the offer and continued his journey.

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Calypso in Greek mythology, a nymph who kept the shipwrecked Odysseus on her island, Ogygia, for seven years; she released him in the end on the orders of Zeus. Her name is Greek, meaning literally ‘she who conceals’.

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