Phaeacia

[ fee-ey-shuh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.

Other Words From

• Phae·acian noun adjective

Example Sentences

Already you have for suitors the chief ones of the land throughout Phaeacia, where you too were born.

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The leisure of the Danish king's house is filled in the same manner as the leisure of Phaeacia.

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Seventeen days he sailed, and on the eighteenth day he saw the shadowy mountain peaks of an island called Phaeacia.

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Nausithous founds Phaeacia, his city is not called Nausithoa.

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Nausithous, a builder of temples, 130;founder of Phaeacia, 170.

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