.Odysseus also had a guide in Hermes and Athena. Hermes helped Odysseus by helping him convince Calypso to let him go home to Ithaca. Athena had helped Odysseus enter into his own home unrecognized by the suitors so that he could live to kill them. Athena disguised Odysseus as a beggar to allow him to conspire in secret with Telemachus....
