"Odysseus and Calypso" (1883) Arnold Böcklin

…but this rendition suggests something altogether different, something more akin to what we find in the fifth book of the Odyssey : the barrenness of human isolation, Odysseus appearing almost as if he were turned by his longing and grief to stone amidst the rocks around him, looking out over the sea toward home, the goddess no longer an object of desire.

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