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Phaeacia (fēā`shə), in Greek mythology, island of Scheria (location unknown). It was inhabited by a seafaring people who were hospitable to sailors and fond of joyous, luxurious living. When Odysseus was shipwrecked on their coast, their king, Alcinoüs, and his daughter, Nausicaä, entertained him.

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No references found	37) Homer's account gives us no strong cause to criticize Nausicaa's behavior, although we may suspect that standards of behavior and gender hierarchies on Phaeacia differ from those on Ithaca. The silence of Semiramis: shame and desire in the Ninus romance and ... by Anderson, Michael J. / Ancient Narrative Two ways of representing the foreign - the empirical and the "culturally conditioned" - contribute to "early austral fiction," which Fausett traces back as far as Indian Ocean fictions of the Hellenistic Age, including Phaeacia in Homer's Odyssey, Plato's Atlantis, Theopompos of Chios's utopia from the mid-fourth-century B. Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great ... by Boesky, Amy / Renaissance Quarterly For example, he lauded the government of Phaeacia which is represented in the Odyssey as enjoying a blend of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, a system, according to Mitford, 'not less marked than in the British constitution'. A Tory history of ancient Greece by Rapple, Brendan A. / Contemporary Review	PFP PFQ PFS:First Choice Pfund series pg PGA PGA370 PGBK PGP PGR PGRP PgUp/PgDn keys pH pH electrode PH Hoeft State Park pH measurement pH meter pH regulation pH standard pH Value phacella phacellite phacker phacolith Phadke, Vasudev Balwant Phaeacia Phaeacians Phaedra Phaedrus Phaenocephalidae Phaenothontidae Phaeocoleosporae Phaeodictyosporae Phaeodidymae Phaeodorina Phaeohelicosporae Phaeophragmiae Phaeophyta Phaeosporae Phaeostaurosporae Phaethon Phaëthon Phaëthon Apollo's Phaetontidae Phag-mo-gru family phage phage cross phage induction phage restriction phagocyte Phagocytella Theory	Phacolith phacolysis phacolytic glaucoma phacolytic glaucoma phacolytic glaucoma phacolytic uveitis phacolytic uveitis phacolytic uveitis phacoma phacomalacia phacomatosis phacometachoresis phacomorphic glaucoma Phacops phacosclerosis phacoscope phacotoxic PHACS Phact Phad Phad Kra Pow Noodles Phad Thai PHADA PHADE Phadke, Vasudev Balwant Phadrosanthus PHAE Phaea Phaea Phaeacia Phaeacian Phaeacian Phaeacians Phaeacians Phaedra Phaedra Phædra Phædra Phaedra complex Phaedrus Phaedrus Phædrus Phædrus PHAEEDA phaeic phaeism Phaenicia Phaenicia sericata Phaenocephalidae Phaenogam Phaenogamia Phaenogamian Phaenogamous phaenology Phaenomenon Phaenothontidae phaeo- phaeochromoblast phaeochromocytoma phaeochromocytoma

37) Homer's account gives us no strong cause to criticize Nausicaa's behavior, although we may suspect that standards of behavior and gender hierarchies on Phaeacia differ from those on Ithaca.

The silence of Semiramis: shame and desire in the Ninus romance and ... by Anderson, Michael J. / Ancient Narrative

Two ways of representing the foreign - the empirical and the "culturally conditioned" - contribute to "early austral fiction," which Fausett traces back as far as Indian Ocean fictions of the Hellenistic Age, including Phaeacia in Homer's Odyssey, Plato's Atlantis, Theopompos of Chios's utopia from the mid-fourth-century B.

Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages and Utopias of the Great ... by Boesky, Amy / Renaissance Quarterly

For example, he lauded the government of Phaeacia which is represented in the Odyssey as enjoying a blend of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, a system, according to Mitford, 'not less marked than in the British constitution'.

A Tory history of ancient Greece by Rapple, Brendan A. / Contemporary Review

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