Then thoughtful Odysseus reassured the handmaids,
"Stand where you are, dear girls, a good way off,
so I can rinse the brine from my shoulders now
and rub myself with oil…
how long it’s been since oil touched my skin!
But I won’t bathe in front of you. I would be embarrassed –
stark naked before young girls with lovely braids."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 6, 240-246. When Odysseus bathes himself in the river, he engages in a little teasing and flattery of the young Phaeacian women. He suggests they stand back so they won’t view his nakedness.