... ] a marvelous splendor making him taller, more massive to all eyes, so Phaeacians might regard the man with kindness" (8:21-23). The goddess' act of tricking the Phaecians into seeing an altered, larger-than life version of Odysseus to sway their sympathies serves to illustrate another calculating maneuver. Making them think about Odysseus a certain way, Athena uses her wits to manipulate them into giving her what she ... serves to warn against straying towards the more uninhibited and reckless parts of our personalities that would be branded as Poseidon-like. The Odyssey tells the story...

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