[Music] book 5 opens on Mount Olympus where Athena asks her father Zeus to continue to get involved Zeus decides to send Hermes to help and also tells Athena to keep helping out Telemachus Hermes goes down to Calypso's Island and tells Calypso to set Odysseus free also talking about the double standard applying to the gods this is the first time we meet Odysseus is crying anxious and homesick there there buddy it's gonna be all right things are gonna go your way this may be a surprise for some readers because we've heard so much about Odysseus being
strong valiant and brave in fact by showing him in this low state full of anxiety and in an intimate weaker moment we can really see how much this quest has broken him so far and we can get on the ground floor with understanding him as a complex character with a lot of feelings Calypso warns Odysseus that the journey ahead will be very difficult and perilous but assists in helping Odysseus build a ship to finally leave the island this is where we really see Odysseus as strengths as a builder and craftsman somebody who can really get
stuff done especially with their own two hands however Poseidon's vengeance has not even begun to be taken care of and some shipwreck Odysseus Odysseus praised to him to let up Athena and a seaman get involved rescuing him stranding him on a new island this time scarier home of the facia n--'s [Music]
