The ideas, characters, and action from the “Odyssey” have been used and repeated in story after story, time and time again. The
goddess Calypso made a recent “appearance” in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” (Tia Dalma) epic. Identify three things that are similar or different about the character as it was used in the Pirate’s movies. Which portrayal of the goddess did you prefer, the original (“Odyssey”) or the movie version (Pirate’)?
Calypso
in Homer’s The Odyssey is a goddess and nymph. She fell in
love with Odysseus and forced him to remain as her husband and
prisoner. In the pirates of the Caribbean she was a powerful Sea
Goddess and was in love with Davy Jones but was betrayed by him. This
betrayal resulted in her being capture by pirates. She then was
trapped in human form. All this are differences from Calypso in The
Odyssey.
I
think that she derived from the same myth, though not the same
character.
