disguise

• told in the first line it is a story of a man of many resources
• Ody's main resource is his cunning
• primary purpose of his cunning is to survive
• manipulate those around him into giving him what he needs to reach Ithaca
• Athene rightly perceives when she meets Ody on his arrival home that he enjoys the intellectual challenge of trickery
• physical disguise to hide identity
• changes in physical form to manipulate the reaction of someone else
• things not said
• word play and double meanings
• deliberate, calculated tricks
• stories and dreams
• mind-changing substances
• physical hiding or concealment
• for self-preservation
• to test others
• to achieve a goal
• to test themselves