Athena disguises Odysseus so completely that even his family will not recognize him.

Evidence

I will shrivel the supple skin on your lithe limbs, strip the russet curls from your head and deck you out in rags you’d hate to see some other mortal wear; I’ll dim the fire in your eyes, so shining once — until you seem appalling to all those suitors, 460 even your wife and son you left behind at home. — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 2722

Categorization

• XREF: The disguise motif threads through the whole poem — goddesses regularly disguise heroes, and this sets up the recognition scenes with Eumaeus, Telemachus, and Penelope.