"I’m hardly a man for reckless, idle anger.
Balance is best in all things.
Father Zeus, Athena and lord Apollo! if only –
seeing the man you are, seeing we think as one –
you could wed my daughter and be my son-in-law
and stay right here with us."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 7, lines 354-359. King Alcinous is so impressed by Odysseus and all that he has accomplished that he gives his blessing for his daughter’s hand in marriage to him.