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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 ()
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Telemachus
- Child
- Poliporthes
- 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
- Commons category
- 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.