Odysseus was trying to get home to Ithaca after leaving Ogygia and Calypso on a raft. His raft is destroyed by Poseidon, but he manages to swim ashore to Phaecia after several days.
Odysseus is woken up on Phaeacia by the sound of Nausicaa and her handmaidens playing games near the river.
Nausicaa
A princess.
Odysseus first encounters, on Phaeacia, the princess Nausicaa, daughter of the Phaecian king Alcinous, there with her maids to wash clothes in the river.
Before. He recalls meeting the cyclops whilst on Phaeacia.
Before. He recalls meeting the cyclops whilst on Phaeacia.
head into the forest.
Phaeacia.
Disc Throwing Contest.
to give Odysseus a break and leave him alone.
No, not at all. They are a sea-faring folk, and sail the seas by the grace of Poseidon in ships that glide along like thought, or as a bird in the air.
Phaeacia