Φαίηκες

Φαίηκες

• (ἀγαυοί, ἀγχίθεοι, ἀντίθεοι, δολιχήρετμοι, μεγάθυμοι, ναυσικλυτοί, φιλήρετμοι).
• A people, their home called Scheria, represented (Od. 6.204) as being the outermost of civilized communities.
• Their transference from Hypereia-2 to Scheria Od. 6.3;
• their city described Od. 6.262;
• their ships and seamanship Od. 6.270, Od. 7.34, 108, Od. 8.557, Od. 13.76;
• their intolerance of strangers Od. 7.32;
• the skill of their women Od. 7.109;
• their skill in dancing and ball-play Od. 8.260, 370;
• conductors home of strangers and Poseidon’s threat thereanent Od. 8.564, Od. 13.125,
• he turns to stone the ship that had borne Odysseus 159;
• etc.

Φαίηκες : the Phaeacians, a fabulous people related to the gods, dwelling in Scheria, where they lived a life of ease, averse to war and devoted to sea-faring. The ships in which they escort guests to their homes, however distant, are themselves possessed of intelligence to find the way. The names of nearly all the Phaeacians mentioned are significant of the love of ships, not excepting that of Nausicaa (ναῦς), the most charming of them all, Od. 5.34, Od. 6.4, Od. 8.244ff.