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    Scheria or Scherie (/ˈskɪəriə/; Ancient Greek: Σχερία or Σχερίη), also known as Phaeacia (/fiːˈeɪʃə/) or Faiakia, was a region in Greek mythology, first...
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    9-12 of the Odyssey), and the location of the Phaeacians' own island of Scheria, pose quite different problems from those encountered in identifying Troy...
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    Arete (/əˈriːtiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀρήτη means "she who is prayed for") of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. Arete was...
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    to the crater Herschel on Mimas.: 642  The central complex of Odysseus (Scheria Montes) features a central pit-like depression,: 642  which is 2–4 km deep...
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  • Nausithous led a migration of Phaeacians from Hypereia to the island of Scheria in order to escape the lawless Cyclopes. He is the father of Alcinous and...
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  • chasmata on Tethys. The central complex of the Odysseus basin is called Scheria Montes. "Tethys nomenclature". USGS. Retrieved 2011-06-27. Wikimedia Commons...
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    Utopia (section Scheria)
    which we know, as pointed out many years ago by Moses Finley, is Homer's Scheria, island of the Phaeacians. A mythical place, often equated with classical...
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    of the Odyssey, Odysseus is shipwrecked on the coast of the island of Scheria (Phaeacia in some translations). Nausicaä and her handmaidens go to the...
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    Homer, Alcinous is the happy ruler of the Phaiacians in the island of Scheria, who has by Arete five sons and one daughter, Nausicaa. The description...
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    for both Odysseus's home of Ithaca as described in Homer's Oddysey, and Scheria, where Odysseus met Nausicaa. Mura di Tramontana Mura di Tramontana (centro...
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  • Macris Eponym of Macris Abode Euboea, later Macris (i.e. Drepane, Scheria, Phaeacia) Genealogy Parents Aristaeus and Autonoë Siblings Actaeon...
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    told to the Phaeacians, and the location of the Phaeacians' own island of Scheria, pose more fundamental problems, if geography is to be applied: scholars...
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  • tribes Epirotes (Epirotic Dorians?) Phaeacians - They lived in the island Scheria (may have been an old name for the island of Kerkyra/Corfu before Corinthian...
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  • spared by the Greeks and stayed by his mother's side. Laodamas, a prince of Scheria as son of King Alcinous and Arete of the Phaecians. He was the brother...
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    criticized Polybius on the geography of the Odyssey. Strabo proposed that Scheria and Ogygia were located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. At another...
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  • January 27, 1993 Caussols E. W. Elst L5 51 km MPC · JPL 11553 Scheria 1993 BD6 Scheria January 27, 1993 Caussols E. W. Elst  · 5.4 km MPC · JPL 11554...
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    Erytheia Hyperborea Ismarus Ithaca Libya Nysa Ogygia Panchaia Phlegra Scheria Scythia Symplegades Tartessos Themiscyra Thrinacia Troy Events Objects...
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    Aeaea Island handmaidens of Circe Aegaeides Aegaeus River on the island of Scheria Aesepides Aesepus River in Anatolia • Abarbarea Acheloides Achelous River...
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  • were: 1. One of the potamoi, or river-gods. He lived on the island of Scheria, widely considered to be the modern island of Corfu. He was the father...
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  • Aesopos, who both died near the River Scamander. JPL · 11552 11553 Scheria 1993 BD6 Scheria (Corfu), one of the Greek Ionian islands, which was first mentioned...
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    of Scheria (Σχερία), and its earliest inhabitants were the Phaeacians (Φαίακες). The island has indeed been identified by some scholars with Scheria, the...
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    Erytheia Hyperborea Ismarus Ithaca Libya Nysa Ogygia Panchaia Phlegra Scheria Scythia Symplegades Tartessos Themiscyra Thrinacia Troy Events Objects...
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    Huge, shallow crater Odysseus, with its uplifted central complex, the Scheria Montes, is at the top of this image....
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  • Solikamsk 22 September 1992 list 11552 Boucolion 27 January 1993 list 11553 Scheria 27 January 1993 list 11554 Asios 22 January 1993 list 11571 Daens 20 July...
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    the gods decided to send Odysseus home; on a small raft, he sailed to Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians, who gave him passage to Ithaca. Once in his...
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  • begins with Odysseus telling stories to King Alcinous on the island of Scheria. Painting of Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous by Francesco Hayez, 1814–1815...
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    Erytheia Hyperborea Ismarus Ithaca Libya Nysa Ogygia Panchaia Phlegra Scheria Scythia Symplegades Tartessos Themiscyra Thrinacia Troy Events Objects...
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    Erytheia Hyperborea Ismarus Ithaca Libya Nysa Ogygia Panchaia Phlegra Scheria Scythia Symplegades Tartessos Themiscyra Thrinacia Troy Events Objects...
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  • by Deianeira. Heracles tried to find refuge on the mythical island of Scheria, widely considered to be the island of Corfu in modern Greece, after the...
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