I would that still Phæacians own'd them, and I had arrived In the dominions of some other King Magnanimous, who would have entertain'd And sent me to my native home secure!
Loud sang the stone, and as it flew The maritime Phæacians low inclined Their heads beneath it; over all the marks, And far beyond them, sped the flying rock.
He spake; and silent the Phæacians sat, Of whom alone Alcinoüs thus replied.
Neptune now saw what the Phæacians had done, and went to 125 consult Jove how he should be revenged.
Hard by him they also laid all the presents the Phæacians had made him; they left them by the roots of the olive tree, a little out of the path, that no passer by might steal them, and then went back to Scheria.
He did 197 not believe he was in Ithaca and complained bitterly of the Phæacians for having brought him wrong.
From the fact that the Phæacians in the time of the Odyssey were evidently dominant on Mt.
The name Phæacians is not unsuggestive of a thin disguise for Phocæans; lines iv.
One cannot help wondering whether the episode of the Lotus-eaters may not be due to the existence of traditions among the Phæacians that their ancestors had made some stay in Libya before reaching Sicily.
As the Phæacians 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.
Phæacians are as closely related to the gods as the Cyclopes and the giants are.
The Phæacians likewise were sprung of the wild men of nature, and had been at one time savages; but they had changed, had separated from their primitive kindred and begun the march of civilization.
At any rate the Phæacians have made the great transition from savagery to civilization, and thus reveal the inherent possibilities of the race.
Wherein is the escort by the Phæacians a violation of the divine order as voiced by the Supreme God?
The ship of the Phæacians in which the passage is made is a miraculous one, and yet prophetic; it is gifted with thought and flies more fleet than a falcon, swiftest of birds.
Pausanias the traveler declares that he saw the dancing scene of the Phæacians depicted upon the throne of Apollo at Amyclæ, the artist of which probably flourished about 600 B.
He doubts, he blames the Phæacians wrongfully, in his distrust of them he counts over his treasures.
Ulysses makes a caustic reply, picks up the quoit, and hurls it far beyond the marks of the others; then with some display of temper he challenges any of the Phæacians present to any kind of contest.
These tears connect him deeply with Troy and its conflict; the Phæacians listen intently, but are outside of the great struggle, they shed no tears.
Phæacians warmly against the charge, and the view that Arete and Nausicaa cannot be products of a corrupt society holds good.
Thus strong emotion seizes him on hearing the strife at Troy, while the Phæacians listen with delight.
Pathetic indeed is the appeal; therewith comes sympathy, the man is no wild Cyclops, whom all Phæacians still remembered with terror, but a victim of misfortune.
Already in the previous Book it was stated that the Phæacians at first "dwelt near the insolent Cyclops," from whom they had to make the removal to their present island on account of violence done them by their neighbors.
The Phæacians had just heard the culminating act in the taking of Troy, whereof Ulysses was the hero; behold!
As I interpret the Outer or Romance-geography of the Odyssey, the Peloponnesus would be understood by the Phæacians of Homer to be extremely remote from their country.
That the Phæacians acted as subjects of Minos in carrying Rhadamanthus by sea from one part of the dominions of that king to another.
If the divine descent of the Phæacians from Neptune renders the phrase inapplicable to them, this is of itself a proof of its very specific nature.
For seventeen days his journey was a prosperous one; but on the eighteenth day, just as the land of the Phæacians came in sight.
The Phæacians were a people closely allied to the gods, to whom they were very dear.
The Phæacians were entranced by this recital, and in addition to their former gifts, heaped other treasures upon the "master of stratagems" that he might return home a wealthy man.
The Phæacians were luxurious fellows, as Horace implies: "Pinguis ut inde domum possim Phæaxque reverti.
Does he suppose the heads of the Phæacians so void[1068] of brains?
According to these writers, Ulysses escaped them; and then, using the privileges of a traveller, told the story to the credulous Phæacians in the marvellous terms in which Homer has related it.
Yet the Phæacians went thither in their ships, and returned on the same day.
At this time the king of the Phæacians was Alcinous, who had a fair daughter, named Nausicaä.
The Phæacians sank back in dismay as they saw the huge mass flying high over their heads, and when it fell all rushed to the spot to mark the distance.
Alcinous rose in response to the words of the elder, who was famed among the Phæacians for his eloquence and wisdom, and taking Odysseus by the hand raised him from his abject posture, and seated him by his side.
Thereupon, without waiting to throw off his cloak, he sprang into the arena, and caught up a massy disc of iron, far heavier than those with which the Phæacians had been throwing.
I will speak to thee frankly, that thou mayest know what manner of men the Phæacians are.
Odysseus stood watching the Phæacians at their sports, and thinking of the mighty feats which he had witnessed and shared at the funeral games of Patroclus.
Not one of the Phæacians took up the challenge, but all sat mute, gazing in wonder and awe at this strange man, who had just given such signal proof of the power of his arm.
Rich and dainty was the fare, and many times the great wine-bowls were filled and emptied; for the Phæacians were a luxurious race, much given to the pleasures of the table.
But to-day is a day of good cheer, when thou shalt learn how gay and joyous a life the Phæacians live.
In his Phæacians we find the expression, And seasoning for food.
For the banquet of the suitors in Homer is just such as might be expected from young men devoted to drinking and love; and that of the Phæacians is more orderly, but still luxurious.
But the Phæacians in Homer had a dance also unconnected with ball playing; and they danced very cleverly, alternating in figures with one another.
He passed on and he came to where the Princes and Captains and Councillors of the Phæacians sat.
Here there are twelve princes of the Phæacians and I am the thirteenth.
So the King spoke, and the Princes, Captains and Councillors of the Phæacians went with him to the palace.
Now on that evening the Captains and the Councillors of the Phæacians sat drinking wine with the King.
In this bout none of the Phæacians can surpass thee.
For we Phæacians are not perfect boxers or wrestlers, but we excel all in running and in dancing and in pulling with the oar.
He thought that the Phæacians had left him forsaken on a strange shore.
Illustration] Then the goddess helped him to lay his goods within the cave--the gold and the bronze and the woven raiment that the Phæacians had given him.
There he found the leaders of the Phæacians bringing offerings of wine to Hermes, as the hour of sleep had arrived, and this was always their last ceremony before seeking slumber.
Phor' kys--the harbor where the Phæacians landed Odysseus on his return to Ithaca.
The Phæacians received his words approvingly, and each went at once to his home to sleep.
Odysseus rose early the next morning and went with Alkinoös to the market-place, close to the sea, where all the Phæacians had assembled.
The Phæacians brought me across the sea and left me sleeping on the shore in Ithaca," replied Odysseus.
He at once complained to Zeus that the Phæacians had restored Odysseus to his native land, with gifts finer and more valuable than anything he could have brought from Troy.
His first thought was that the Phæacians had deceived him and left him on an unknown shore.
Finally the Phæacians convey him while asleep across the sea in a boat, carry him ashore at dawn, and go away before he awakes [Od.
But there are also striking resemblances between Edrisi's tale and the description in the Odyssey of Odysseus's visit to the Phæacians in the western isle of Scheria.
In like manner, when the same divinity converts the ship of the Phæacians into a rock, he drives it downward with his hand[186].
While the Cyclops has no trace of deity but in superhuman force, the Phæacians have no pretensions of this kind.
The Phæacians appear to stand quite in another category.
When Neptune heard this, he for Scheria went, Whence the Phæacians took their first descent.
Since the Phæacians were not only dwellers by sea, but studious also of sea qualities, their names seem to usurp their faculties therein.
The Phæacians were descended originally from Neptune.
But when they came to throw the weight, and begged Odysseus to try, he cast a stone heavier than all others, far beyond where the Phæacians had thrown.
The Phæacians promised to bring me to Ithaca, but they have brought me to a land of strangers, who will surely attack me and steal my treasures.
He set out and in eighteen days saw the land of the Phæacians appear.
To the land of the Phæacians the north wind had driven Odysseus, and while he lay asleep in his bed of leaves under the olive-trees, the goddess Athene went to the room in the palace where Nausicaa slept, and spoke to her in her dreams.
Next day a company of the Phæacians went down to a ship that lay by the seashore, and with them went Odysseus.
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