20+ The Odyssey Book 5 Background. Because book 5 presents the reader's first meeting with odysseus, it is interesting that homer chooses to show him alone on a beach on calypso's island, apparently defeated and weeping. Kline © copyright 2004 all rights reserved.
Soon after dawn breaks on mount olympus, athena puts the case of odysseus once more before the gods.
However, penelope is left to choose a new husband and has still stayed loyal to odysseus. Rather than open the story with the culmination of the trojan war, homer begins midway through odysseus's wanderings. Romance between odysseus and calypso. The fifth in my series of prints from the odyssey!
