Lincoln Burrows's (Dominic Purcell) Screen Used Envelope & Ogygia Prison PictureSeason 5Episode 501This Set includes:An Envelope - This item is made of paper stock, yellow in color, measures approximately 9 by 12 inches and is in good condition.Ogygia Prison Picture - This item is made of paper stock, measures approximately 8.5 by 11 inches and is in good condition.Please note, this is the only set received for this character. The same prison was the site of an even more brazen breakout in 2015, when 1,200 prisoners busted out.PRISON BREAK LINCOLN DOMINIC PURCELL USED ENVELOPE & OGYGIA PRISON PICTURE EP501Prison BreakThis auction item is from Prison Break. Some identified it with the Maltese island of Gorzo, while others claimed “Ogygia” was the earliest name for Egypt, while still others said it was in the Atlantic ocean.īut Ogygia could also be inspired by a very real place, a Yemeni prison that was the site of a real-life prison break in 2006, when 23 prisoners included Jamal Ahmed Badawi, mastermind of the U.S.S. The events of the Odyssey were taken for granted as fact by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who hotly debated the location of Ogygia. She holds him prisoner - basically her sex slave - for seven years before finally being commanded by the Gods to release Odysseus and let him resume his quest to return home to Greece.Īlso Read: Here's Where 'Prison Break' Left Off 8 Years Ago In the epic poem, Greek hero Odysseus lands on Ogygia during his wanderings, and quickly becomes Calypso’s lover before finding himself trapped by Calypso’s semidivine superpowers. First mentioned in Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Ogygia is the name of the island home of the Nymph Calypso, daughter of the Titan Atlas (the guy Greeks believed held up the sky). “Ogygia” isn’t an Arabic word, it’s Greek. So where did Ogygia get its name? Not locally, that’s for sure. In Tuesday’s premiere of the “Prison Break” revival on Fox, it’s revealed that Wentworth Miller’s “Michael Scofield” is being held captive in “Ogygia,” a Yemeni prison reserved for “heavy hitters, political prisoners.” (Spoiler alert: Please do not read on if you haven’t watched Tuesday’s episode of “Prison Break”)

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