There like a god he sits and takes his wine

I purchased The Odyssey late Friday night, and finished it late Monday night. I know now that I fully lack the ability to temper my reading when important work remains to be done; especially when, for like two hundred pages, you think that you're just on the verge of seeing Odysseus mete out sweet (and bloody) vengeance to a room full of ... um ... impolite people. It was very satisfying.

Athena goes in disguise and helps along Odysseus' son, and offers up this big prayer (before a feast) with several very large requests, and then the book continues:

This was the prayer of Athena-granted in every particular by herself.

And another line that I particularly liked ... is while a princess, Nausikaa is instructing Odysseus on the manner in which he should approach her parents if he is going to be successful in asking for assistance with getting home. She describes her father (and cutting into the middle of the sentence):

there like a god he sits and takes his wine.

The amazon.com version of this book has a really lame cover, although it shares the same ISBN as my B&N copy. I guess that's probably not the brightest thing to say, if I had hoped someone would buy from Amazon. Oh well.

Update from 2025: Here's an amazon.com link related to the feature image.