In Book 19 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Odysseus does not like to be disrespected by people who are inferior to him. After Melantho lashed out at Odysseus calling him a tramp, Odysseus exclaims his anger towards her. Odysseus yells, “What’s possessed you, woman? Why lay into me? Such Abuse! Just because I’m filthy, because I wear such rags, roving around the country, living hand-to-mouth. But it’s fate that drives me on: that’s the lot of beggars, homeless drifters” (Homer 392). Odysseus feels truly disrespected in that moment, and he decides to prove to her that just because he is filthy, it doesn’t mean that he is a “homeless drifter”. After he exclaims that he is not what he looks like he is, he goes on to tell Melantho who he was before he left