Zeus’s daughter Athena made him taller to all eyes,
his build more massive now, and down from his brow
she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms. As a master craftsman washes
gold over beaten silver – a man the god of fire
and Queen Athena trained in every fine technique –
and finishes off his latest effort, handsome work,
so she lavished splendor over his head and shoulders now.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 6, lines 256-260. Athena gives the shipwrecked Odysseus a complete makeover to make him more desirable to Princess Nausicaa after he finds him washed onto the shore. The goddess transforms his appearance, so that he becomes taller and more beautiful and has a "massive" build. A Homeric simile likens what she does to a master smith pouring gold over silver to make something beautiful even more splendid.