Calypso
Calypso is a sea goddess who entrusted Davy Jones with the task of ferrying the souls of those who died at sea to the next world. She gave him the Flying Dutchman to accomplish this task, promising to meet him after ten years. However, she failed to appear, leading to Jones's betrayal and imprisonment of her into her human form.
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When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Character introduced in the 2003 film *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl*.
Relationships
- enemy of
- Pirate Brethren, Davy Jones
- consort of
- Davy Jones
- syncretized with
- Circe
Mentioned by
- Kraken
- Zeus
- Heracles
- Athena
- Ino
- Odysseus
- Hecate
- Minotaur
- Hermes
- Poseidon
- Apollo
- Sol
- Hera
- Cronus
- Phaethon
- Oceanus
and 6 more
Sources
Source passages
“Jones and Calypso possess a matching set of heart-shaped music-box lockets that play a distinct melody (the latter is a half-step above the former's), and Jones is known to play this melody on his pipe organ.”
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“Feng then offers Barbossa the Black Pearl in exchange for Elizabeth, who he mistakenly believes is the sea goddess, Calypso. Elizabeth is stunned that Will betrayed Jack Sparrow to achieve his goal. Ignoring Will, she agrees to Feng's terms in exchange for the crew's safety.”
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“Two interesting goddesses in the Odyssey are Calypso and Circe, who both show friendly and hostile reactions toward Odysseus. Calypso rescued Odysseus after his ship and crew were destroyed by the storm created by Zeus after Odysseus's crew killed Helios's sun cattle, even after a warning from Circe.”
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“Circe was often confused with Calypso, due to her shifts in behavior and personality, and the association that both of them had with Odysseus.”
#27927 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to Homer and Hesiod, with Helios she had Circe and Aeëtes, with later authors also mentioning their children Pasiphaë, Perses, Aloeus, and even Calypso, who is however more commonly the daughter of Atlas.”
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