Mariam Badr’s Reviews > Odyssey > Status Update

"You just can’t be straight, can you, you crooked old devil? Never tell the truth if you can think of a good lie first. Twisted as ram’s-horn. Oh, Odysseus, you rogue, you trickster, you huckster, you charlatan, you cheat, you devious two-faced fraud. You sly, scheming swindler. So clever, but not clever enough to recognize your guardian and inspiration?"

As far as I am concerned, your great-grandson is free to find his way home.’
Despite herself, Calypso smiled. To call the eternal shining youth Hermes a great-grandfather seemed absurd.

A wink, a shuffle, a flicker, a shimmy, and he was gone.💫

"Zeus turned to Athena. ‘As for the boy Telemachus. You have already visited him as Mentes and guided him as Mentor. You can protect him again if it pleases you. Now, Ganymede! A draft of nectar. Hebe! A cooling cloth to my brow. Apollo – music! Athena!’
‘Yes, dear papa?’
‘Athena … you can leave me.’"
Greek mythology could be as funny as it could be

"It would be blasphemy to say that the foam-born goddess Venus grunted"
-For a refresher on Venus’s frothy origins, consult Mythos.
Hehe

"A blown kiss, a wave and Mercury was gone"
Thats Hermes for you