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

As in Homer’s original, the story then leaps across the Mediterranean to Phaeacia, where the legend of Odysseus’s exploits in the war give spontaneous rise to a celebration performed by the D.R.E.A.M.

From New York Times

While they sat amazed, he began, and told them the whole story of his adventures, from the day when he left Troy till he arrived at Calypso's island; he had already told them how he was shipwrecked on his way thence to Phaeacia.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

While Ulysses slept, alone and naked in an unknown land, a dream came to beautiful Nausicaa, the daughter of the King of that country, which is called Phaeacia.

From Project Gutenberg

Where the Homeric dwellers of Phaeacia Still live, and with a kiss meet East and West; Where with the olive tree the cypress blooms, A dark robe in the azure infinite, E'en there my soul has longed to dwell in peace With towering visions of the land of Pyrrhus; There dream-born beauties pour their flood, Dawn's mother Lighting the fountain of sweet Harmony.

From Project Gutenberg