"Woman – your words, they cut me to the core!
Who could move my bed? Impossible task,
even for some skilled craftsman – unless a god
came down in person, quick to lend a hand,
lifted it out with ease and moved it elsewhere.
Not a man on earth, not even at peak strength,
would find it easy to prise it up and shift it, no,
a great sign, a hallmark lies in its construction."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 23, lines 205-212. Odysseus ignites with fury when Penelope tests him by asking Eurycleia to move their marriage bed, knowing that it cannot be moved. Odysseus erupts that it is impossible due to its construction, adding that it would take a god to do that. Even after Odysseus has slaughtered the suitors and sheds the beggar disguise, Penelope still hesitates to recognize him as her husband. Showing her power, she cleverly devices a test that only he could pass.