Gozo
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Gozo, known in antiquity as Gaulos, is an island in the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Republic of Malta. After the island of Malta itself, it is the second-la
View of Mġarr Harbour from the Gozo Channel Line
MV Ta' Pinu, one of the four ferries operated by the Gozo Channel Line, on its way from Gozo to Ċirkewwa.
View of Mġarr, port of island of Gozo
Transport bus in Gozo in 2017
Ogygia
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Ogygia is an island mentioned in Homer's Odyssey, Book V, as the home of the nymph Calypso, the daughter of the Titan Atlas. In Homer's Odyssey, Calypso detained Odysseus on Ogygia for seven years and
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…Also, native tradition and certain ancient Greek historians (notably Euhemerus and Callimachus) maintain that Gozo is the island Homer described as Ogygia, home of the nymph Calypso. Diodorus Siculus writes that the island had many well harbours. Gozo was occupied by the Carthaginians, who built a temple…
Odysseus and Calypso in the caves of Ogygia. Painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)
Calypso Cave in Xagħra, Gozo. According to Maltese tradition, this was the cave of Calypso and Odysseus.