Phaeacia

American  

[fee-ey-shuh] / fiˈeɪ ʃə /

noun

Classical Mythology.

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

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Other Word Forms

• Phaeacian noun

Example Sentences

Nicean barks: the Greek ships that bore the wanderer, Ulysses, from Phaeacia to his home.

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Carhart, Margaret Spraque

With that the god whose earthquakes rock the ground Fierce to Phaeacia cross'd the vast profound.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Neptune overtakes him with a terrible tempest, in which he is shipwrecked, and in the last danger of death; till Lencothea, a sea-goddess, assists him, and, after innumerable perils, he gets ashore on Phaeacia.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

The sight of high Phaeacia soon we lost, And skimm'd along Epirus' rocky coast.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

For seventeen days the stars serve as his guides, and he is nearing the island of Phaeacia, when Neptune becomes aware that his hated foe is about to escape.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)