Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. At one point in his life, he visited Ogygia, the island of Calypso.

History
Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, England. He was working as a privateer (a pirate, working under the monarch, plundering the ships of hostile countries) for Queen Elizabeth I. He was one of England's most effective privateers as he captured a Spanish ship laden with 25.000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37.000 ducats of Spanish money (about £7.000.000 by modern standards), which is said to be the biggest pryze captured in a single attack ever obtained.

Francis Drake married Mary Newman in 1569. She died 12 years later, in 1581. In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham.

The House of Hades
Francis Drake was mentioned by Calypso, as a man, who visited Ogygia after Odysseus, and before Percy Jackson. Also, when Leo Valdez sees Reyna in his communication, Calypso asks "is she his Elizabeth", refering Drake's second wife.

Trivia

 * King Philip II of Spain. was said to have offered a reward of 20,000 ducats (about £4.000.000 or 6.500.000$ by modern standards), for Drake's life.