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Scheria

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home of the Phaeacians

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He sails for eighteen days, and on the eighteenth day of his voyage (the twenty-ninth from the beginning of the action), he sees Scheria. Poseidon raises a storm against him, and it is not till the thirty-second day from that in which Athene visited Telemachus, that he lands in Scheria, the country of the Phaeacians. Here he is again in fairy land. A rough, but perfectly recognisable form of the Phaeacian myth, is…
Homer, The Odyssey of Homer
Names Scheria several times.
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When he had thus spoken, he said to his son Mercury, “Mercury, you are our messenger, go therefore and tell Calypso we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home. He is to be convoyed neither by gods nor men, but after a perilous voyage of twenty days upon a raft he is to reach fertile Scheria,50 the land of the Phaeacians, who are near of kin to the gods, and will honour him as though he were one of…
Homer, The Odyssey
The chapter “CALYPSO—ULYSSES REACHES SCHERIA ON A RAFT.” is titled for Scheria; names Scheria.
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Scheria was inhabited by a peaceful people, who cared more for commerce and navigation than for agriculture and the chase. They had built a town near the harbor, and had dockyards where busy workmen were to be seen building ships.
Karl Friedrich Becker, Ulysses of Ithaca
Opens on Scheria; names Scheria.
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