akes her worthy of him. She can also offer him immortality. If Odysseus had chosen this option, if he remained with Circe forever, his journey would be over. Circe would become his wife or partner. Yet when his men remind him of their journey home to Ithaca, he is anxious to leave. He is not satisfied with this; this is not the way he wants his journey to end.
             As Odysseus's journey continues, he then finds the goddess Calypso. Odysseus arrives on Calypso's island shipwrecked and alone. He also becomes Calypso's lover and remains on that island with her for the next nine years. He spent only one year with Circe, and during that time he did not think of Ithaca and of what awaited him there. His nine years with Calypso, however, were spent thinking about returning home. Odysseus would weep during the day for the life he would never return to and at night would go to bed with Calypso. Calypso seems like the most tempting offer for Odysseus aside from Penelope. In the poem she even questions Odysseus as to why he did not chose her. Sh
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