Odysseus was tested in many forms throughout his journey in the Odyssey, and even before then in the Iliad(the wooden horse). Athena herself even recognized Odysseus' ingenuity and aided him throughout the epic. An example of this would be when he was able to thwart the cyclops Polyphemus by saying that he was "nobody" allowing him to escape. Although Odysseus was prideful and arrogant, even the gods could not doubt his resourcefulness.
