Nausicaa (mythology)

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Frederic Leighton , Nausicaa , ca.1878

Nausicaa ( Greek  Ναυσικάα ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of phaiakischen King Alkinoos and his wife Arete .

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Pieter Lastman , Odysseus and Nausicaa , oil portrait, 1619 , Alte Pinakothek , Munich

According to the Odyssey of Homer breaks Nausicaa, in a dream by Athena encourages the morning with her maids to the beach of Sharia and washed there with their servants on the river near the beach laundry. Then they eat and start a ball game . The screeching of the girls as the ball flies far away wakes a shipwrecked man who was sleeping in a nearby bush. The other girls are afraid of him, but Nausicaa is not afraid. She gives him food and clothes. Then Nausicaa shows him the way to his father's court, where the stranger reveals himself to be Odysseus during the banquet and reports on his wanderings . Homer also uses these events poetically to subtly depict the budding love of a young girl. However, Odysseus decides against marrying Nausicaa and enjoying a carefree life with the Phaiacs, but instead lets the Phaiacs bring him to his home in Ithaca .

Later, according to some traditions (e.g. Hellanikos of Lesbos ) , Odysseus' son Telemachus undertakes a trip to the Phaiacs and falls in love with Nausicaa. Both have a son who is referred to in some sources as Persepolis , in others as Ptoliporthos .

Trivia

Hayao Miyazaki's manga Nausicaä from the Valley of the Winds and the anime based on it was inspired by the character Nausicaa.

The thirteenth chapter in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce is entitled Nausicaa. Leopold Bloom also meets a beautiful young woman there on the beach.

In Manfred Hausmann's novel Little Star in the Dark Stream (1963) the sailing yacht, which is the starting point of the dramatic story, sinks in its course and is rescued again, is called Nausikaa .

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  1. James Joyce: Ulysses (audio book) . Ed .: SWR. Chapter 13.
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