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

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Phaeacia

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

From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Margaret Ashmun

Then, tossed by the waves for nine days longer, Ulysses was finally cast on the isle of Ogygia, whence he had come directly to Phaeacia as already described.

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

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 Alexander Pope

All, all the godlike worthies that adorn This realm, she flies: Phaeacia is her scorn.'

From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope

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

From The Aeneid English by Virgil