Athena apparently had made a detour to see Aphrodite before arriving on Ithaca, because she brought a few of the love-goddess’ signature beauty products to use in the makeover. Instead, the goddess put Penelope into a deep sleep and then propped her up on a couch in order to get to work. When Athena arrived at the palace of Ithaca, she did not wait to see if Penelope would consent to the makeover. Making Penelope the epitome of beauty would ensure that none of the suitors that had crowded into her palace during Odysseus’ decades-long absence would leave the island, thereby setting up an inevitable massacre. Besides Odysseus and Penelope being two of her most favorite humans, Athena also had another motivation for her spur-of-the-moment makeover plans-the goddess was determined to see bloodshed on Ithaca. Not long after a disguised Odysseus returned to his homeland of Ithaca in Book XVIII of The Odyssey, Athena, almost like a big sister, decided to give Penelope a full-body makeover. Fortunately for Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, Athena appeared before her on one of her more cheerful days, intending only to amplify her beauty. Yet, on other days, Athena could be loving enough to spontaneously give one of her favorite humans a godly makeover.
One day, she would be cold-hearted enough to turn an innocent rape victim into a hideous monster because the woman had the audacity to be raped in a temple of Athena-poor Medusa.
Athena was the type of deity that had wild mood swings.
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