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Without bickering and arguing over whether Phaeacia is meant to be as real as Sicily or as real as Tattooine for Homer's audience, and similarly ignoring philosophical devices like Utopia or Lilliput, does anyone before Trollope create a significant fictional city depicted as part of the real world?
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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The girl from Phaeacia who discovers Odysseus washed up half-dead on the shore!
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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The whole tale we think of as the travels of Odysseus, was nothing more than his report to Nausicaa's father, the king of Phaeacia.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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He may not like the idea of putting the daughter of the King of Phaeacia into the hands of Pelagaeus 'faction.
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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Alcinous, king of Phaeacia, commands her to descend to the river, and wash the robes of state, in preparation for her nuptials.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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Ulysses, in conversation with Penelope, gives a fictitious account of his adventures; then assures her he had formerly entertained her husband in Crete; and describes exactly his person and dress; affirms to have heard of him in Phaeacia and Thesprotia, and that his return is certain, and within a month.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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Neptune overtakes him with a terrible tempest, in which he is shipwrecked, and in the last danger of death; till Lencothea, a sea-goddess, assists him, and, after innumerable perils, he gets ashore on Phaeacia.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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The Phaeacia robots were designed and programmed to go there and collect information on that specific planetary system.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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"What's new is-if we, at that time, leave for Phaeacia, they will come with us."
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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He had promised that eventually they would go on to Phaeacia; but when would that be, would it ever, could he then betray it?
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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