Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Nausithous.
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Odyssey
Homer
Homer's Phaeacian founder: son of Poseidon and Periboea who leads his people from Hypereia to Scheria, walls the city, and fathers Rhexenor and Alcinous — the king whose court will host Odysseus.
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Nausithous
Godlike settler of Scheria — carefully distinct from Hesiod's Nausithous, son of Odysseus and Calypso.
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Alcinous
Nausithous' son — the Phaeacian king of perfect hospitality whose palace, gifts, and self-steering ships close Odysseus' wanderings.
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Scheria
The Phaeacian island Nausithous founds far from the Cyclopes — the last harbor before Ithaca in Homeric geography.