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

But we men of Phaeacia are not mighty to wrestle or to box; only we are swift of foot and skilful to sail upon the sea.

From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer

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

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

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

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

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

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 Ashmun, Margaret