"No, I am not a god,"
the long-enduring, great Odysseus returned.
"Why confuse me with one who never dies?
No, I am your father –
the Odysseus you wept for all your days,
you bore a world of pain, the cruel abuse of men."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 16, lines 209-214. When a confused Telemachus mistakes the restored Odysseus for a god, Odysseus reveals that he is not one of the immortals, but his father. Father and son are reunited at last.