is own on account of his own actions.While these events take place, Odysseus is trapped on the island of the nymph, Calypso. Odysseus cries and seeks pity from Calypso to enable him to return to his homeland, yet she simply refuses him from leaving (Homer 15). Why, you ask would a goddess want to keep a mere mortal man and make him immortal? The simple answer is that she loved Odysseus with all her heart, though he did not share these feelings, she kept trying to make him love her, yet she failed. Finally after some persuading on Minerva's part, the gods agree to let our hero go, Neptune who was not informed as to their decision decides to have a little fun at Odysseus expense (Homer 18).Oh o long Odysseus has desired to be set free and finally, with great shock, he finds that the goddess will let him go, and that she plans on keeping her word. She provides him a warm wind, and he sails away into the horizon on a raft that he constructed (Homer 20). Not long after he sets out he I caught in a storm created by Neptune, for he is enraged at this mortal for having blinded his son. While Odysseus is happy to be on his way home at last, he begins to think that maybe it was a better idea to stay with Calypso (Homer 21). "I am afraid that Calypso was right when she said I should have trouble by the sea before I got home" (Homer 22). This is witness to the fact that although Odysseus is a brave man who wanted nothing more than to return to his family, even he is not immune to the effects of temptation and lust. After passing this thought out of his mind, our hero is content to be on the way to the only woman he has ever truly loved and the land of his boyhood. After Abraham's ordeal in Egypt he and his wife Sarah are also more than happy to be back on their way to Canaan.Neptune, being mad at Odysseus, decides he will have a little fun with him, for he may not kill him but he can make living worse than death! "However Minerva, has...
