CALYPSO One of the Okeanids, whose name meant 'like the hidden tide'. To her drifted the ship wrecked Odysseuson his way home, and falling in love with the Greek hero, Calypso detained him on her island for seven years. Odysseus however, disdaining her offer of immortality, and caring nothing for her love, missing his home, sat so disconsolate by the strand that the gods finally prevailed upon the nymph to allow him to leave.