Phaeacian

British  

/ fiːˈeɪʃən /

noun

1. Greek myth one of a race of people inhabiting the island of Scheria visited by Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War

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Example Sentences

The next day in the presence of all the Phaeacian chiefs he told the story of his ten years’ wandering.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

At last he started home, but a tempest shipwrecked him and only after many and great dangers had he succeeded in reaching the Phaeacian land, a helpless, destitute man.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Soon we see the cloud-capped Phaeacian towers sink away, skirt the shores of Epirus, and enter the Chaonian haven and approach high Buthrotum town.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

She tended him in a cave in the Phaeacian land, and ever afterward the Phaeacians were blessed with all good things.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Colum, Padraic

Poseidon in anger at the arrival of the hero changed the returning Phaeacian ship into stone when it was almost within the harbour of the city.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.