When Odysseus arrives in Phaeacia he is given clothes and then led to the Palace of Alcinous by Athena. He arrives at the palace and begs the queen and king for safe passage to Ithaca. They are moved by his pleas and agree to help him. There is a feast and a athletic festival that evening. Alcinous becomes curious about who Odysseus is and has him recount his wanderings.
Phaeacia
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Before. He recalls meeting the cyclops whilst on Phaeacia.
Before. He recalls meeting the cyclops whilst on Phaeacia.
alcinous
Alcinous
Odysseus is woken up on Phaeacia by the sound of Nausicaa and her handmaidens playing games near the river.
A princess.
Nausicaa
Odysseus first encounters, on Phaeacia, the princess Nausicaa, daughter of the Phaecian king Alcinous, there with her maids to wash clothes in the river.
head into the forest.
Queen Arete is the wife of Alcinous who is the King of Phaeacia.