A list of transformation of form in Homer’s Odyssey

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* Athena suddenly abandons her disguise as Mentor and flies away in an eagle’s form

* transformation of Odysseus’ men into swine under the influence of Circe’s “wicked drugs”

* Athena changes Odysseus’appearance into a beggar, where she “shriveled the supple skin on his lithe limbs, stripped the russet curls from his head, covered his body top to toe with the wrinkled hide of an old man and dimmed the fire in his eyes, so shining once”(Odyssey 13.493–96), and then shape-shifts Odysseus back into a younger man, “taller, supple, young, his ruddy tan came back, the cut of his jawline firmed and the dark beard clustered black around his chin” (Odyssey 16.196–98)

* Athena applying charis “over Odysseus’ head and shoulders,” making him taller, more massive to all eyes”