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Nausicaa
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Also known as Nausicaä, Nausikaa

thumb|Nausicaa (second from right) with Athena and Odysseus. Detail of an Attic red-figured amphora from Vulci ()

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Gender
female
Father
Alcinous
Mother
Arete
Image
1878 Frederick Leighton - Nausicaa.jpg
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present in work
Odyssey
worshipped by
Greek mythology
name in native language
Ναυσικᾶ
described by source
Pauly–Wissowa
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Nausicaa
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thumb|Nausicaa (second from right) with Athena and Odysseus. Detail of an Attic red-figured amphora from Vulci ()

Nausicaa (; , or , ), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia. Her name means "burner of ships" ( 'ship'; 'to burn').

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nausicaa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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