The fair-tressed daughter of Atlas on the isle of Ogygia — a bright goddess who kept Odysseus in her hollow caves for seven years, yearning that he should be her husband, until Hermes bore Zeus' command that the hero must go free.1
Homer opens the Odyssey with her: while the other Achaean chiefs came home from Troy, Odysseus alone remained with Calypso, filled with longing for his wife and his return. On Ogygia, far off in the sea, the guileful nymph detained him perforce in her arching caverns, offering immortality and ageless youth if he would stay — but his heart was set on rocky Ithaca and prudent Penelope.2
When Hermes came from Zeus to bid her release him, Calypso shuddered at the gods' envy of goddesses who mate openly with mortal men; yet she swore by earth and heaven and the water of Styx that she would plot no fresh mischief. She gave him tools, showed him where the tall trees grew, and on the fifth day sent him on his way with wine, water, provisions, and a fair wind — though Poseidon wrecked the raft he built before the Phaeacians took him up.3
To the Phaeacians Odysseus himself told the tale: fate brought him to Calypso's hearth after Zeus shattered his ship; she kept him seven years until the seasons turned to the year the gods had ordained for his homecoming. Menelaus, told by Proteus in Egypt, had already heard that Odysseus was alive but detained on her isle — the first sure news Telemachus received that his father still lived.4
Homer names her only as the fair-tressed daughter of Atlas on Ogygia — a dread goddess and guileful nymph — without any nymph sub-class tag in our seven lenses. Hesiod lists a different Calypso among the daughters of Ocean and Tethys, but that Oceanid roll is not merged into this Odyssey figure. Per NYMPHS.md Batch K policy, `kinds` remain empty until a sourced FigureKind sub-class is attested for Homer's detainee of Odysseus.5
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