"Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back!
Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce
as the day we ripped Troy’s glittering crown of towers down.
Stand by me – furious now as then, my bright-eyed one –
and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess,
with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 13, lines 442-447. Odysseus is ready to do battle with the suitors and asks Athena’s help to come up with a plan so that he can exact revenge on them.