In this scene Odysseus escapes drowning. The sinking of the ship appears in the background. He is rescued on the isle of Calypso. When he left Calypso on a raft of his own making, he once again encountered Neptune's storm. The sea nymph Ino Leucothea gave him her veil, which carried the hero safely through the waves.
Ino was a mortal queen of Thebes, who after her death and transfiguration was worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
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