Tellingly, in most cases through which she seems to Odysseus and his son Telemachus, Athena disguises herself as a person. She poses, for instance, as Mentes, a king pleasant to Ithaca, and as a male herald of the Phaeacians. Athena is aware of solely too nicely that it’s males who maintain energy on earth, however ladies who form occasions by way of subterfuge.
