Athena stroked Odysseus with her wand.
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.
She turned his shirt and cloak into squalid rags,
ripped and filthy, smeared with grime and soot.
She flung over this the long pelt of a bounding deer,
rubbed bare, and gave him a staff and beggar’s sack,
torn and tattered, slung from a fraying rope.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 13, lines 492-501. Athena disguises Odysseus to look like a wrinkled old beggar before he goes to meet the swineherd. There is an irony in the fact that the King of Ithaca returns to his kingdom as a poor and shriveled beggar.