Calypso dwelt on Ogygia in a beautiful vine-hung cave, ruling the remote island at the navel of the sea as her solitary domain far from gods and mortals alike.
Ogygia and Ithaca stand as mythological opposites in the Odyssey — one an immortal paradise of captivity, the other a modest mortal home Odysseus yearned for across seven years of exile.
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