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href="/wiki/File:Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg/260px-Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg/390px-Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg/520px-Odysseus_and_Nausicaa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="806" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pieter_Lastman" title="Pieter Lastman">Pieter Lastman</a>: <i>Odysseus and Nausicaa</i> (<a href="/wiki/Oil_on_panel" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil on panel">oil on panel</a>, 1619; <a href="/wiki/Alte_Pinakothek" title="Alte Pinakothek">Alte Pinakothek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Scheria</b> or <b>Scherie</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA 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follows">ˈ</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>) or <b>Faiakia</b>, was a region in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, first mentioned in <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i> as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> in his 10-year journey before returning home to <a href="/wiki/Homer%27s_Ithaca" title="Homer's Ithaca">Ithaca</a>. It is amongst one of the earliest descriptions of a <a href="/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopia</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="From_Ogygia_to_Scheria_(Odysseus)"><span id="From_Ogygia_to_Scheria_.28Odysseus.29"></span>From Ogygia to Scheria (Odysseus)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: From Ogygia to Scheria (Odysseus)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before leaving <a href="/wiki/Ogygia" title="Ogygia">Ogygia</a>, Odysseus builds a raft and sails eastwards, instructed by <a href="/wiki/Calypso_(mythology)" title="Calypso (mythology)">Calypso</a> to <a href="/wiki/History_of_navigation#Antiquity" title="History of navigation">navigate</a> using the stars as a celestial reference point.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the eighteenth day appear the shadowy mountains of the land of the Phaeacians, that looked like a <i>shield</i> in the misty deep. <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a> spots his raft and seeking vengeance for his son <a href="/wiki/Polyphemus" title="Polyphemus">Polyphemus</a> who was blinded by Odysseus, produces a storm that torments Odysseus. After three days of struggle with the waves, he is finally washed up on Scheria. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Odysseus_meets_Nausicaa">Odysseus meets Nausicaa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Odysseus meets Nausicaa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg/260px-Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg/390px-Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg/520px-Francesco_Hayez_028.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2024" data-file-height="1444" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Francesco_Hayez" title="Francesco Hayez">Francesco Hayez</a>: <i>Odysseus at the court of <a href="/wiki/Alcinous" title="Alcinous">Alcinous</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Oil_on_canvas" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil on canvas">oil on canvas</a>, c. 1815; <a href="/wiki/Galleria_Nazionale_di_Capodimonte" class="mw-redirect" title="Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte">Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naples" title="Naples">Naples</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>Meanwhile, the goddess <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> sneaks into the palace, disguised as a sea-captain's daughter, and instructs princess <a href="/wiki/Nausicaa" title="Nausicaa">Nausicaa</a> (the daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Alcinous" title="Alcinous">Alcinous</a>) in her sleep to go to the seashore and wash her clothes. The next morning, Nausicaa and her maids go to the seashore, and after washing the clothes, start to play a game on the beach, with laughs, giggles and shouts. Odysseus, sleeping nearby exhausted from his adventure, is awakened by the shouts. He covers his nakedness with thick leaves and goes to ask for help from the group. Upon seeing the unkempt Odysseus in this state, the maids run away, but, Nausicaa, encouraged by Athena, stands her ground and talks to him. To excuse the maids, she admits that the Phaeacians are "the farthermost of men, and no other mortals are conversant with them",<sup id="cite_ref-book_6_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-book_6-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so they run away since they have never seen a stranger before. Nausicaa, being hospitable, provides clothes, food and drink to Odysseus, and then directs him to the palace of King Alcinous. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_palace_of_King_Alcinous">The palace of King Alcinous</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The palace of King Alcinous"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following <a href="/wiki/Nausicaa" title="Nausicaa">Nausicaa</a>'s instructions, Odysseus sought to enter the palace of King <a href="/wiki/Alcinous" title="Alcinous">Alcinous</a> and plead for mercy from the queen, <a href="/wiki/Arete_(mythology)" title="Arete (mythology)">Arete</a>, so he could make his way home. On his way to the palace, Odysseus meets Athena disguised as a local girl. In her disguised state, Athena advises him about how to enter the palace. Athena, knowing that the Phaeacians were hostile towards men from the outlands, cloaked Odysseus in a mist that hid him from the Phaeacians' gaze.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Athena's protection, Odysseus passes through all of the protection systems of the palace and enters the chamber of King <a href="/wiki/Alcinous" title="Alcinous">Alcinous</a>. Odysseus throws his arms around the queen's legs and supplicates her. Naturally, Alcinous and his court are surprised to see a stranger walking into their secured palace. It is only after Echeneus, a Phaeacian elder, urges King Alcinous to welcome the stranger that they offer Odysseus hospitality. </p><p>The front doors of the palace are flanked with two dogs made of silver and gold, constructed by <a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a>. The walls of the palace are made of bronze that "shines like the sun", with gates made of gold. Within the walls, there is a magnificent garden with apple, pear, and pomegranate trees that grow year-round. The palace is even equipped with a lighting system consisting of golden statues of young men bearing torches. After Odysseus tells Alcinous and his court the story of his adventures after the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>, the Phaeacians take him to Ithaca on one of their ships. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg/330px-Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg/500px-Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg/960px-Departure_of_Ulysses_from_the_Land_of_the_Pheacians.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1035" data-file-height="770" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Claude_Lorrain" title="Claude Lorrain">Claude Lorrain</a>: <i>Port Scene with the Departure of Odysseus from the Land of the Phaeacians</i> (<a href="/wiki/Oil_on_canvas" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil on canvas">oil on canvas</a>, 1646; <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Phaeacian_ships">The Phaeacian ships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Phaeacian ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Phaeacians possessed remarkable ships. They were quite different from the <a href="/wiki/Penteconter" title="Penteconter">penteconters</a>, the ships used during the Trojan War, and they were steered by thought. King Alcinous says that Phaeacians carried <a href="/wiki/Rhadamanthus" title="Rhadamanthus">Rhadamanthus</a> to <a href="/wiki/Euboea" title="Euboea">Euboea</a>, "which is the furthest of any place" and came back on the same day.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also explains to Odysseus what sort of information the Phaeacian ships require in order to take him home to Ithaca.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there. For the Phaeacians have no pilots; their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want; they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> describes the Phaeacian ships as fast as a <a href="/wiki/Falcon" title="Falcon">falcon</a> and gives a vivid description of the ship's departure. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The ship bounded forward on her way as a four in hand chariot flies over the course when the horses feel the whip. Her prow curvetted as it were the neck of a stallion, and a great wave of dark blue water seethed in her wake. She held steadily on her course, and even a falcon, swiftest of all birds, could not have kept pace with her.<sup id="cite_ref-Odyssey,_Book_XIII_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Odyssey,_Book_XIII-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographical_location_of_Scheria">Geographical location of Scheria</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geographical location of Scheria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Odyssey" title="Geography of the Odyssey">Geography of the Odyssey</a></div> <p>Many ancient and modern interpreters favor identification of Scheria with the island of <a href="/wiki/Corfu" title="Corfu">Corfu</a>, which is within 110 km (68 miles) of Ithaca. <a href="/wiki/Thucydides" title="Thucydides">Thucydides</a>, in his <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War" title="History of the Peloponnesian War"><i>Peloponnesian War</i></a>, identifies Scheria as Corfu or, with its ancient name, Corcyra. In I.25.4, he records the <a href="/wiki/Corinth" title="Corinth">Corinthians'</a> resentment of the Corcyraeans, who "could not repress a pride in the high naval position of an island whose nautical renown dated from the days of its old inhabitants, the Phaeacians." Locals on Corfu had long claimed this, based on the rock off the west coast of the island, which is supposedly the ship that carried <a href="/wiki/Odysseus" title="Odysseus">Odysseus</a> back to Ithaca, but was <a href="/wiki/Petrifaction" title="Petrifaction"> turned to stone</a> by <a href="/wiki/Poseidon" title="Poseidon">Poseidon</a>, to punish the Phaeacians for helping his enemy, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[…] with one blow from the flat of his hand turned her [the ship] into stone and rooted her to the sea bottom.<sup id="cite_ref-Odyssey,_Book_XIII_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Odyssey,_Book_XIII-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The Phaeacians did not participate in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>. The Greek name Φαίακες is derived from <i>phaiós</i> (φαιός “gray”).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Phaeacians in the <i>Odyssey</i> did not know Odysseus (although they knew <i>of</i> him, as evidenced by the tales of <a href="/wiki/Demodocus_(Odyssey_character)" title="Demodocus (Odyssey character)">Demodocus</a>), so they called him a "stranger". Odysseus however was the king of the majority of the <a href="/wiki/Ionian_Islands" title="Ionian Islands">Ionian Islands</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> not only of <a href="/wiki/Homer%27s_Ithaca" title="Homer's Ithaca">Ithaca</a>, but also "of <a href="/wiki/Cephallenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Cephallenia">Cephallenia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neritum" title="Neritum">Neritum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crocylea" title="Crocylea">Crocylea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aegilips" title="Aegilips">Aegilips</a>, <a href="/wiki/Same_(ancient_Greece)" class="mw-redirect" title="Same (ancient Greece)">Same</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zacynthus" class="mw-redirect" title="Zacynthus">Zacynthus</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so if Scheria was Corfu, it would be surprising that the citizens of one of the Ionian Islands did not know Odysseus. Furthermore, when Odysseus reveals his identity, he says to the nobles: "[…] if I outlive this time of sorrow, I may be counted as your friend, though I live so far away from all of you"<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> indicating that Scheria was far away from Ithaca. </p><p>Many characteristics of the Phaeacians, including their seafaring and relaxed lifestyle are suggestive of <a href="/wiki/Minoan_civilization" title="Minoan civilization">Minoan</a> <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>. Aside from the seafaring prowess, the palace walls that shone like the Sun are read to be covered not by bronze but <a href="/wiki/Orichalcum" title="Orichalcum">orichalcum</a>. The latter similarities make Scheria also suggestive of <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>'s account of <a href="/wiki/Atlantis" title="Atlantis">Atlantis</a>. <a href="/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" title="Helena Blavatsky">Helena Blavatsky</a> proposed in her <i><a href="/wiki/Secret_Doctrine" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Doctrine">Secret Doctrine</a></i> (1888) that it was <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a> before Plato who first wrote of Atlantis.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the ancient times, some scholars having examined the work and the geography of Homer have suggested that Scheria was located in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. Among them were <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geographical_account_by_Strabo">Geographical account by Strabo</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Geographical account by Strabo"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Approximately eight centuries after <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, the geographer <a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a> criticized <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_the_Odyssey" title="Geography of the Odyssey">geography of the <i>Odyssey</i></a>. Strabo proposed that Scheria and <a href="/wiki/Ogygia" title="Ogygia">Ogygia</a> were located in the middle of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>At another instance he [Polybius] suppresses statements. For Homer says also "Now after the ship had left the river-stream of Oceanus"<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "In the island of Ogygia, where is the navel of the sea,"<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where the daughter of Atlas lives; and again, regarding the Phaeacians, "Far apart we live in the wash of the waves, the farthermost of men, and no other mortals are conversant with us."<sup id="cite_ref-book_6_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-book_6-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All these [incidents] clearly suggest that he [Homer] composed them to take place in the Atlantic Ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Copanello" title="Copanello">Copanello</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLattimore1967" class="citation book cs1">Lattimore, Richard (1967). <i>Homer's The Odyssey, Book 6, Line 160</i>. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. p. 112. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-093195-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-093195-7"><bdi>0-06-093195-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Homer%27s+The+Odyssey%2C+Book+6%2C+Line+160&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pages=112&rft.pub=Harper+%26+Row+Publishers%2C+Inc.&rft.date=1967&rft.isbn=0-06-093195-7&rft.aulast=Lattimore&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScheria" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, Odyssey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Od.+7.320&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136">7.320</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, Odyssey, Book VIII <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Od.+8.550&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136">555–563</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Odyssey,_Book_XIII-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Odyssey,_Book_XIII_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Odyssey,_Book_XIII_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Odyssey, Book XIII <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D13%3Acard%3D47">84–88</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Entry <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23110118">“{{lang|grc|φαιός}}”</a> in Liddell & Scott, <i>A Greek-English Lexicon</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/File:Ionian_Islands.svg" title="File:Ionian Islands.svg">Map of Ionian Islands</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Iliad</i>, II.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Odyssey</i>, IX, 17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"It was not he [Plato] who invented it [the story of Atlantis], since Homer, who preceded him by many centuries, also speaks of the Atlantes and of their island in his <i>Odyssey</i>." <i>Secret Doctrine</i>, vol 2, pt. 3, ch. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Odyssey</i>, XII, 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Odyssey</i>, I, 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Strabo, 1.2.18. The original text of this passage by Strabo is “<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα φανερῶς ἐν τῷ Ἀτλαντικῷ πελάγει πλαττόμενα δηλοῦται.</span></span>”</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scheria&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html">Odyssey by Homer</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060220090030/http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/homer/odyssey.html">Homer's Odyssey resources on the Web</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external 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selflink">Scheria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telepylos" title="Telepylos">Telepylos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrinacia" class="mw-redirect" title="Thrinacia">Thrinacia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Study</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homeric_scholarship" title="Homeric scholarship">Homeric scholarship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeric_Laughter" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeric Laughter">Homeric Laughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeric_Question" title="Homeric Question">Homeric Question</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chorizontes" title="Chorizontes">Chorizontes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B8rgensen%27s_law" title="Jørgensen's law">Jørgensen's law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad" title="Historicity of the Iliad">Historicity of the Iliad</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus_Unbound" title="Odysseus Unbound">Odysseus Unbound</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer%27s_Ithaca" title="Homer's Ithaca">Homer's Ithaca</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Cave_of_the_Nymphs_in_the_Odyssey" title="On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey">On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rediscovering_Homer" title="Rediscovering Homer">Rediscovering Homer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hermoniakos%27_Iliad" title="Hermoniakos' Iliad">Hermoniakos' Iliad</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hysteron_proteron" title="Hysteron proteron">Hysteron proteron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epithets_in_Homer" title="Epithets in Homer">Epithets in Homer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dactylic_hexameter" title="Dactylic hexameter">Dactylic hexameter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer" title="English translations of Homer">Translations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Translating_Homer" title="On Translating Homer">On Translating Homer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odyssey_(George_Chapman_translation)" title="Odyssey (George Chapman translation)">Chapman</a> (1614–1615)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odyssey_(Alexander_Pope_translation)" title="Odyssey (Alexander Pope translation)">Pope</a> (1725–1726)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odyssey_(Richmond_Lattimore_translation)" title="Odyssey (Richmond Lattimore translation)">Lattimore</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translation)" title="Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)">Wilson</a> (2017)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Phrases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/In_medias_res" title="In medias res">In medias res</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis" title="Between Scylla and Charybdis">Between Scylla and Charybdis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Odissea_(1911_film)" title="L'Odissea (1911 film)">L'Odissea</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(1954_film)" title="Ulysses (1954 film)">Ulysses</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_Ringo" title="The Return of Ringo">The Return of Ringo</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nostos:_The_Return" title="Nostos: The Return">Nostos: The Return</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses%27_Gaze" title="Ulysses' Gaze">Ulysses' Gaze</a></i> (1995 Greek)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sans_plomb_(film)" title="Sans plomb (film)">Sans plomb</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F" title="O Brother, Where Art Thou?">O Brother, Where Art Thou?</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Keyhole_(film)" title="Keyhole (film)">Keyhole</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_(2024_film)" title="The Return (2024 film)">The Return</a></i> (2024)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)" title="The Odyssey (2026 film)">The Odyssey</a></i> (2026)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey_(1968_miniseries)" title="The Odyssey (1968 miniseries)">The Odyssey</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_31" title="Ulysses 31">Ulysses 31</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey_(1997_miniseries)" title="The Odyssey (1997 miniseries)">The Odyssey</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mission_Odyssey" title="Mission Odyssey">Mission Odyssey</a></i> (2002–2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus_and_the_Isle_of_the_Mists" title="Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists">Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Odyssey" title="Star Trek: Odyssey">Star Trek: Odyssey</a></i> (2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prose fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_True_Story" title="A True Story">A True Story</a></i> (2nd century AD)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Les_Aventures_de_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9maque" title="Les Aventures de Télémaque">Les Aventures de Télémaque</a></i> (1699)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Desire" title="The World's Desire">The World's Desire</a></i> (1890)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" title="Ulysses (novel)">Ulysses</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Human_Comedy_(novel)" title="The Human Comedy (novel)">The Human Comedy</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Return_to_Ithaca_(novel)" title="Return to Ithaca (novel)">Return to Ithaca</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Homer%27s_Daughter" title="Homer's Daughter">Homer's Daughter</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Big_Fish:_A_Novel_of_Mythic_Proportions" title="Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions">Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Penelopiad" title="The Penelopiad">The Penelopiad</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Books_of_the_Odyssey" title="The Lost Books of the Odyssey">The Lost Books of the Odyssey</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Circe_(novel)" title="Circe (novel)">Circe</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/On_First_Looking_into_Chapman%27s_Homer" title="On First Looking into Chapman's Homer">On First Looking into Chapman's Homer</a>" (1816)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(poem)" title="Ulysses (poem)">Ulysses</a>" (1842)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Ithaca_(poem)" title="Ithaca (poem)">Ithaca</a>" (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey:_A_Modern_Sequel" title="The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel">The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cantos" title="The Cantos">The Cantos</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pagan_Operetta" title="Pagan Operetta">Pagan Operetta</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Current_Nobody" title="Current Nobody">Current Nobody</a></i> (play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cyclops_(play)" title="Cyclops (play)">Cyclops</a></i> (play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ithaka_(play)" title="Ithaka (play)">Ithaka</a></i> (play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Il_ritorno_d%27Ulisse_in_patria" title="Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria">Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria</a></i> (opera)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Apple_(musical)" title="The Golden Apple (musical)">The Golden Apple</a></i> (musical)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Glam_Slam_Ulysses" title="Glam Slam Ulysses">Glam Slam Ulysses</a></i> (musical)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Home_Sweet_Homer_(musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Sweet Homer (musical)">Home Sweet Homer</a></i> (musical)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus,_Verbrecher" title="Odysseus, Verbrecher">Odysseus, Verbrecher</a></i> (play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Penelope_(Enda_Walsh_play)" title="Penelope (Enda Walsh play)">Penelope</a></i> (play)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic:_The_Musical" title="Epic: The Musical">Epic: The Musical</a></i> (album series)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Brave_Ulysses" title="Tales of Brave Ulysses">Tales of Brave Ulysses</a>" (song)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey_(album)" title="The Odyssey (album)">The Odyssey</a></i> (album)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paintings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jar_(pelike)_with_Odysseus_and_Elpenor" title="Jar (pelike) with Odysseus and Elpenor">Jar with Odysseus and Elpenor</a> (c. 440 B.C.)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus_on_the_Island_of_the_Phaecians" title="Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians">Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians</a></i> (c. 1635)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Telemachus_and_the_Nymphs_of_Calypso" title="Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso">Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso</a></i> (1782)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sorrow_of_Telemachus" title="The Sorrow of Telemachus">The Sorrow of Telemachus</a></i> (1783)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus_at_the_Court_of_Alcinous" title="Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous">Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous</a></i> (1816)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Homer_(Ingres)" title="The Apotheosis of Homer (Ingres)">The Apotheosis of Homer</a></i> (1827)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_Deriding_Polyphemus" title="Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus">Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus</a></i> (1829)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_and_Ulysses" title="The Sirens and Ulysses">The Sirens and Ulysses</a></i> (1837)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Ulysses" title="Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses">Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses</a></i> (1891)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_and_the_Sirens_(Waterhouse)" title="Ulysses and the Sirens (Waterhouse)">Ulysses and the Sirens</a></i> (1891)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Odysseus_and_Polyphemus_(B%C3%B6cklin)" title="Odysseus and Polyphemus (Böcklin)">Odysseus and Polyphemus</a></i> (1896)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_and_the_Sirens_(Draper)" title="Ulysses and the Sirens (Draper)">Ulysses and the Sirens</a></i> (1909)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey:_The_Search_for_Ulysses" title="Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses">Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wishbone_and_the_Amazing_Odyssey" 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