The Odyssey

Why was he being kept there?

Invocation To The Muse

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He is being kept in the caves because Calypso craves him for her own.

"Her ladyship Calypso 

clung to him in her sea­hollowed caves—  a nymph, immortal and most beautiful,  who craved him for her own."

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