In Popular Culture
Jacques-Yves Cousteau named his research ship after Calypso.
Musically, Jean Michel Jarre's seventh studio album "Waiting for Cousteau" (dedicated to Jacques Cousteau) featured a three-part ambient work entitled "Calypso". John Denver's song "Calypso" as also a tribute to Cousteau and his work. The Suzanne Vega song "Calypso" from the album Solitude Standing is based on The Odyssey, namely the part in which Calypso is forced to let Odysseus go. A song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called More News from Nowhere, which is loosely based on the Odyssey, contains a lyric briefly summarizing the story of Odysseus and Calypso.
In literature, Calypso appears in the 's novel Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) and tries to seduce Telemachus. She also appears in "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. In the fourth book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, she has been exiled and trapped on an island because she helped her father, Atlas; she is freed by Percy in the fifth book, The Last Olympian. Calypso also appears in Tad Williams' Otherland series.
On screen, Calypso was a nickname given to Dr. Mariah Crawford, Kraven's fiancee, in the 90's animated television series Spider-Man. Andrey Konchalovskiy's 1997 made-for-TV miniseries adaptation, The Odyssey, depicts Calypso (portrayed by Vanessa Lynn Williams) similarly based on the mythical character in the epic poem. In the movie series Pirates of the Caribbean, Calypso (portrayed by Naomie Harris) is a goddess who was once in love with Davy Jones. She becomes trapped in human form and assumes the name Tia Dalma.
In video games, Calypso is the name of one of the major characters of the Twisted Metal series where he is shown as the host of the titular contest. He grants the winner of the contest one wish, but these wishes tend to backfire on the winner.
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