Calypso offers odysseus immortality quote

1)In his adventure with the goddess Calypso, Odysseus was given the chance to be immortal. All he had to do was not go home. And yet he didn't take it. What point do you think Homer was making with this episode and do you agree with it? (I mean, seriously...immortality!)

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During Book V Odysseus is given the opportunity to become immortal and live forever with the Goddess Calypso but he instead decides to go home to his wife and country. Odysseus is trying to prove the point that no matter how great something may seem to be or could be, if someone really wants something, then they won’t allow anything to get in the way. He is promised everlasting life, happiness, food and drink fit for the Gods, and to be graced by Calypso’s beauty for the rest of time. Odysseus, however, has a different idea.