deception runs throughout the sequence

• Athene pretends to be various people: the daughter of Dymas, a young girl, a herald and a bystander
• Nausicaa doesn't admit to her father that she is thinking of marriaf
• Alcinous pretends not to know about her secret thoughts
• Odysseus has an ulterior motive in flattering Nausicaa, and she has an ulterior motive in responding to him
• Athene makes Odysseus look more handsome
• Odysseus doesn't tell Arete the whole truth about Calypso
• Odysseus hides his identity in books 6,7,8
• the bard sings about the deception of Hephaestus and the trickery of the wooden horse