Nausicaa
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 11 anchored passages
lovely Nausicaa · the daughter of Alkinoos · the girl
in the texts
Odyssey
Princess of the Phaeacians, daughter of Alkinoos and Arete, whose kindness to the shipwrecked Odysseus sets the Phaeacian episode in motion.
She went straight to the beautifully decorated bedroom in which there slept a girl who was as lovely as a goddess, Nausicaa, daughter to King Alkinoos.
Then Alkinoos said, "Stranger, it was very wrong of my daughter not to bring you on at once to my house along with the maids, seeing that she was the first person whose aid you asked.
As the huntress Artemis goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood-nymphs, daughters of Aegis-bearing Zeus, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.