Athena addresses Odysseus in Book 13 of the Odyssey

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]depend on me by you to be my mind securely fixed when you and I endure these toils and someone I foresee bespattering the boundless ground with blood and brains of these rapacious men these suitor fiends who all your stores devour but come I'll make your form unknown to all the men who see your supple limbs I will deform and wither up your skin your chestnut hair I'll turn to gray and wrap you in a rag a dreadful thing unfit to Aware, repulsive to the sight.

[00:00:32]Bright are your eyes, but once I'm done, a blurry mess they'll be. Unseammly, you'll appear to men. All suitors will agree.

[00:00:40]unseemly to the wife and son you've left within your halls.