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When Athena rejuvenates and embellishes, Odysseus for his first meeting with Nausicaa, the goddess's handiwork is compared to that of a skilful artisan:
Then Athena, daughter of Zeus, made him seem taller for the eye to behold, and thicker, and on his head she arranged the curling locks that hung down like, hyacinthine petals. And as when a master craftsman overlays gold on silver, and he is a clever one who was taught by Hephaestus and Pallas Athena in art complete, and grace is on every work he finishes, so Athena gilded with grace his head and shoulders, and he went a little aside and sat by himself on the seashore; and the girl looked on him in wonder.
Source: Homer, Odyssey 6.229—237.
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