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Phaeacia (Scheria)
Scheria, land of the seafaring Phaeacians in Odyssey 6 to 13, where Nausicaa found the shipwrecked Odysseus and King Alcinous heard his tale before a magic ship carried him home to Ithaca.
About Phaeacia (Scheria)
Scheria, last hosts
The Phaeacians of Scheria in Odyssey 6–13 receive the wrecked Odysseus: Nausicaa at the washing pools, Alcinous's palace, Demodocus's songs, athletic games, and a magic ship that delivers him sleeping to Ithaca. Poseidon then stones the vessel. Scheria is mapped toward Corcyra by later readers. There is no historical Phaeacian cult. The episode is institutionalized hospitality, the poem's best house, and the platform for Odysseus to tell books 9–12.
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Phaeacia (Scheria) among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Homer, Odyssey 6
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