Phaeacian

/ fiːˈeɪʃən /

noun

Greek myth one of a race of people inhabiting the island of Scheria visited by Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War

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This poem includes the Phaeacian episode, and the account of Ulysses' adventures as told by himself in Books ix.-xii.

Here the Phaeacian leaders used to sit, drinking and eating, holding constant cheer.

The picture of the Phaeacian court also bears a general resemblance to that of the Danish court as described in Beowulf.

The Phaeacian story is indeed episodic; the interest of those adventures is different from that of the meeting with Penelope.

No one can reasonably doubt that the list of Phaeacian athletes is the invention of one man.

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