Nausicaa

Family: mythological · Role: princess of the Phaeacians · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 22

In Book 1, Chapter 22, Nausicaa and her maids are bathing in a river when Odysseus suddenly appears, as Homer describes. Polygnotus also painted the scene.

In Book 5, Chapter 19, Nausicaa is identified as the daughter of Alcinous.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 22

• with Odysseus (Odysseus encounters Nausicaa while she is bathing.) “who has also painted Odysseus suddenly making his appearance as Nausicaa and her maids were bathing in the river, just as Homer has described it.”
• with Polygnotus (interaction) “who has also painted Odysseus suddenly making his appearance as Nausicaa and her maids were bathing in the river, just as Homer has described it.”

Book 5 · Chapter 19

• parent: Alcinous “Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.