Phaeacians

As the Phaeacians are the best sailors in the world, so their women excel all others in weaving, for Minerva has taught them all manner of useful arts, and they are very intelligent.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

I will show you the way to the town, and will tell you the name of our people; we are called Phaeacians, and I am daughter to Alcinous, in whom the whole power of the state is vested. "

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

Hyllus still alive in the land, whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians.

The Argonautica 2008

Still desperate to return to his family in Ithaca, Book 8 of Homer's Odyssey finds Odysseus shipwrecked in on the island of Scheria, home of the Phaeacians.

Lapham's Quarterly: "Sing to Me of The Man..." 2008

Arrival among the Phaeacians: here other Colchians reclaim Medea, and, to prevent her surrender, her marriage with Jason is celebrated (982 – 1169). —

The Argonautica 2008

Phaeacians, and granted boundless wealth to the inhabitants.

The Argonautica 2008

Up he sprang, cloak and all, and seized a discus, huge and heavy, more weighty by far than those the Phaeacians used to hurl and test each other.

Lapham's Quarterly: "Sing to Me of The Man..." 2008

Though the Phaeacians ultimately give him provisions to continue on his way home, a poorly timed insult from the son of the Phaeacian king awakens Odysseus's competitive athletic spirit.

Lapham's Quarterly: "Sing to Me of The Man..." 2008

Arrival among the Phaeacians: here other Colchians reclaim Medea, and, to prevent her surrender, her marriage with Jason is celebrated (982 – 1169). —

The Argonautica 2008

Aeolus, son of Hippotas, will check his swift rushing winds, all but the steady west wind, until they reach the havens of the Phaeacians; do thou devise a return without bane.

The Argonautica 2008