In my first class of the day we translated an adaptation of a passage from Lucian's True History in which the narrator delivers a letter to Calypso from Odysseus. In the letter Odysseus writes that he was wrong to have left Calypso's island and is ready to return--Calypso just needs to say the word!
My prep-work tonight for the Myth class tomorrow has been reading books 5-7 of the Odyssey. Much of book 5 takes place on Calypso's island, so that was a nice echo of my morning class. Plus books 5 and 6 are my favorites in the whole text, so it's a pleasure to revisit them.
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