It is in these very waters, of the dominions of Odysseus, over which Odysseus has set sail to return speedily to the Camp of Agamemnon, that, thirty years later, he departs from the same island (ZAKYNTHOS), also called Ogygia, and abandons the charms of the witch Calypso, almost drowning in the perilous currents that rush through the narrow straights between the island and the mainland. RETURN TO TEXT