EPISODE ELEVEN:

“HERE WE ARE, LIVING IN PARADISE”

A long time ago / I watched him struggle with the sea
I knew that he was drowning / And I brought him into me
Now today / Come morning light
He sails away / After one last night
I let him go.

Suzanne Vega, Calypso

 
 

ULYSSES FELLING TIMBERS TO BUILD A RAFT

A mezzotint made by Phillip Dawe in 1776, based on a painting by Angelica Kauffman.

(“Ulysses” is the Roman name for Odysseus. The Roan names of Greek heroes were preferred by European artists of the Baroque and Classical periods.)

HERMES ORDERING CALYPSO TO RELEASE ODYSSEUS

A fabulously baroque imagining of the encounter between Hermes and Calypso, by Gerard de Lairesse at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

INO AND ATHAMAS

An illustration from Ovid’s retelling of the myth by Michel Faulte in the British Museum.