Having fallen in love with him, she keeps him on her island for seven years, until the gods command her to release him. In the Odyssey, she takes in the shipwrecked Odysseus. Calypso:Ī daughter of the Titan Atlas who dwelt on the island of Ogygia. His brothers were Zephyros (the west wind), Notos (the south wind), and Euros (the east wind). He was responsible, in some myths, for the death of the beautiful youth Hyacinthos. Aeëtes was also the father of the mortal witch Medea, and the keeper of the Golden Fleece, until it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with Medea’s help. Aeëtes: Brother of Circe and the sorcerer-king of Colchis, a kingdom on the eastern edge of the Black Sea.
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