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

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

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Seventeen days he held his course, and on the eighteenth the coast of Phaeacia was in sight.

From The Adventures of Ulysses by Lamb, Charles

Put off these garments, and swim to the land of Phaeacia, putting this veil under thy breast.

From The Story of the Odyssey by Homer

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

In the Iliad we hear of no minstrels in camp: in the Odyssey a prince has a minstrel among his retainers— Demodocus, at the court of Phaeacia; Phemius, in the house of Odysseus.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew