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
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.
Atlas (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes: Heracles and
Ogygia
…romanized: Ōgygíē , or Ὠγυγία Ōgygíā ) 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 kept him from returning to his home of Ithaca, wanting to marry him. Athena…
The Farnese Atlas, the oldest surviving depiction of the celestial sphere as a celestial globe.
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).
Herkules und Atlas by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Atlas and Heracles, metope from the temple of Zeus at Olympia.