Place

Scheria

Island of the Phaeacians · the last stop before home

The Phaeacian harbour with its ships drawn up in ordered rows along the mole, and behind it the walled orchard where blossom and ripe fruit hang on the same trees.
The Phaeacian harbour with its ships drawn up in ordered rows along the mole, and behind it the walled orchard where blossom and ripe fruit hang on the same trees.

The island of the Phaeacians, a rich and peaceable seafaring people whose ships need no steersman and never come to grief. It is the last stop of the voyage: Odysseus arrives with nothing at all, is fed, clothed and finally asked who he is, and tells the whole story of his wanderings to their king in a single night. They carry him home loaded with gifts — and Poseidon turns their ship to stone as it comes back into harbour.

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