Phaeacians

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The Phaeacians are a mythical seafaring people in Homer’s Odyssey, renowned for their hospitality, advanced ships, and role in helping Odysseus return home.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Phaeacians canonical 5
Phaeacian 2
Phaeacian court 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf characters in Greek mythology
characters in the Odyssey
legendary seafaring people
mythical people
alsoKnownAs Phaeacians
surface form: Phaeakians

Phaeacians
surface form: Phaiakians
appearsInBookOfOdyssey Book 13
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
associatedDeity Poseidon
associatedWith Ithaca
Odysseus
Scheria
collectiveNameFor inhabitants of Scheria
culturalPractice public assemblies
storytelling and song
welcoming shipwrecked strangers
culture Greek mythology
describedIn Homer's Odyssey
surface form: Homer’s Odyssey
entertainedBy bard Demodocus
ethnonymForm Phaeacians self-linksurface differs
surface form: Phaeacian
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
mythologicalAncestry descendants of Poseidon in some traditions
mythologicalKing Alcinous
mythologicalLocationType remote island society
mythologicalPrincess Nausicaa
mythologicalQueen Arete
narrativeFunction bridge between Odysseus’s wanderings and his return home
notableFor advanced ships
helping Odysseus return to Ithaca
hospitality
seafaring skill
xenia toward strangers
opposedByDeity Poseidon after they help Odysseus
perceivedByGreeksAs idealized civilized hosts
politicalStructure monarchy under Alcinous
punishmentMotif ship turned to stone by Poseidon in some versions
residence Scheria
roleInWork hosts of Odysseus in the Odyssey
shipCharacteristic magically guided ships
self-steering ships
swift ships
socialTrait love of athletic games
love of dancing
love of feasting
transportDestination Ithaca
transportedCharacter Odysseus

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nausicaa associatedWith Phaeacians
Alcinous ethnicGroup Phaeacians
Arete associatedWith Phaeacians
queen of the Phaeacians queenOf Phaeacians
subject surface form: Arete
queen of the Phaeacians honoredBy Phaeacians
subject surface form: Arete
Phaeacians ethnonymForm Phaeacians self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Phaeacian
Phaeacians alsoKnownAs Phaeacians
this entity surface form: Phaiakians
Phaeacians alsoKnownAs Phaeacians
this entity surface form: Phaeakians
bard Demodocus entertains Phaeacians
subject surface form: Demodocus
this entity surface form: Phaeacian court
Clytoneus ethnicity Phaeacians
this entity surface form: Phaeacian
Clytoneus associatedWith Phaeacians
this entity surface form: Phaeacian court
Laodamas familyName Phaeacians
this entity surface form: Phaeacian royal family