"Little girl, now wouldn’t you be my guide
to the palace of the one they call Alcinous?
The king who rules the people of these parts.
I am a stranger, you see, weighed down with troubles,
come this way from a distant, far-off shore.
So I know no one here, none at all
in your city and the farmlands round about."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 7, lines 24-29. Odysseus asks a young girl to be his guide to the palace of King Alcinous. The girl is Athena in disguise, Odysseus’ divine assistant on his journey home to Ithaca.