Nausicaa
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Nausicaa, also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name means "burner of ships".
Nausicaa (second from right) with Athena and Odysseus. Detail of an Attic red-figured amphora from Vulci (c. 440 BC)
Tischbein: Odysseus and Nausicaa (1819).
Jean Veber: Ulysses and Nausicaa (1888).
Robert Jackson Emerson: Nausicaa.
Alcinous
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In Greek mythology, Alcinous was a son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor. After the latter's death, he married his brother's daughter Arete who bore him Nausicaa, Halius, Clytoneus and Laodamas. I
Nausicaa
…Ναυσικάα, romanized: Nausikáa , or Ναυσικᾶ, Nausikâ, ), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name means "burner of ships" (ναῦς 'ship'; κάω 'to burn'). In Book Six of the Odyssey, Odysseus is shipwrecked on the…
Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous by Francesco Hayez. The blind minstrel Demodocus is playing the harp.