Beware of tall beautiful women

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Remarkably, gods are a non-factor in Herodotus. Sometimes he even shows how people can be fooled by god-like appearances:

“There was a woman named Phya in the deme of Paianiaa who was almost six feet tall and strikingly beautiful. They dressed her up in a full set of armor," placed her in a chariot, showed her how to project a distinguished appearance, and then drove her into the city. They sent heralds on ahead of them to tell the people to remain in the city and to proclaim: [5] “Athenians, hail Peisistratos and welcome him joyfully, since Athena herself is bringing him home to her own acropolis, honoring him above all men.” They repeated these words as they made their way onward, and before long the rumor that Athena was bringing Peisistratos home had reached the demes. In the city, people actually worshiped this woman in the belief that she was really the goddess,a and they welcomed Peisistratos back."
--- Herodotus, Robert B. Strassler. “The Landmark Herodotus: Histories [2007, 2009].”