The gods have made you mad. They have that power, putting lunacy into the clearest head around or setting a half-wit on the path to sense.

"Dear old nurse," wary Penelope replied,
"the gods have made you mad. They have that power,
putting lunacy into the clearest head around
or setting a half-wit on the path to sense."

– Homer

The Odyssey, Book 23, lines 11-14. A skeptical Penelope refuses to believe Eurycleia’s story that Odysseus has returned and killed the suitors. She blames the gods for putting this madness into her faithful nurse’s head. A lot of human actions are blamed on the gods in The Odyssey.

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