Nausicaa Greek Daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaecians.
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Nausicaa Greek Daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaecians. It was she who discovered Odysseus when he was shipwrecked on the island of Scheria on his way back to Ithaca after the Trojan War. She took him as a guest to her father's court, a place of peace and luxury. The location of Scheria and the Phaecian kingdom is unknown.
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