cutter, even now, has carried out her mission and glides home over the misty sea. Let me impale her, end her voyage, and end all ocean-crossing with passengers, then heave a mass of mountain in a ring around the city" (Hom., Od. XIII. 182-191).
             Zeus advised Poseidon on how to punish the Phaiakians: "Here is how I should do it, little brother: when all who watch upon the wall have caught sight of the ship, let her be turned to stone- an island like a ship, just off the bay. Mortals may gape at that for generations! But throw no mountain round the sea port city" (Hom., Od. XIII. 193-198). Had Poseidon acted without the consent of Zeus, he would have paid dearly for his defiance.
             In this hypothetical government with Zeus as its president, Athena would have been a suitable vic
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