Hermes

1. Initial: The initial situation is when Odysseus is stuck on Calypso's island, against his will. (Page 64: "He says there's a man here, one of those who were nine years fighting before Priam's town, and the most unlucky of them all. It took them ten years to capture that city: then they set out for home, but on the way they offended Athena, and she raised a bad wind and a heavy sea against them. All his good comrades were drowned, but he as it seems was carried here by winds and waters. That's the man, and the orders are to send him away at once; for it is not his fate to perish in this place...")