Athena was the army’s patron through ten years of war. She walked off the project the night Troy fell. The lesser Ajax — not Telamonian Ajax — dragged Cassandra out of her temple and assaulted her at the foot of Athena’s statue. The goddess’s own sanctuary, defiled. The Greeks let it pass. Athena did not. She withdrew her favor from the fleet and most of the kings sailed into storms they could not survive. The wrath sits behind the Odyssey like an unspoken background — the reason Menelaus is blown to Egypt, the reason Agamemnon comes home at all (to be killed at his own table), and part of why Odysseus, the man she actually still likes, takes so long to land. She comes back for him at the end. She does not come back for the others.
The Wrath of Athena
She loved the Greeks at Troy. She left them on the way home. Ajax the Locrian assaulted Cassandra inside her temple and she let the fleet pay for it.