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Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus from "The Odyssey". Zeus sends Hermes to Ogygia to command Calypso to release Odysseus. Calypso reluctantly agrees, providing Odysseus with tools to build a raft.

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Hermes Orders Calypso to Release Odysseus

Zeus sends Hermes to Ogygia to command Calypso to release Odysseus. Calypso reluctantly agrees, providing Odysseus with tools to build a raft. She offers him immortality, but Odysseus chooses to return home.