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Nausithous

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Canonical name
Nausithous
Disambiguator
None
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Character
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

2

king Nausithous

Title · Direct

great Nausithous

Epithet · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
house of Hades1 observation
·Direct

Nausithous was dead and gone to the house of Hades.

See evidence text
“So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Phaeacians—a people who used to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning. To his house, then, did Minerva hie in furtherance of the return of Ulysses.”
Scheria1 observation
·Direct

Nausithous moved the Phaeacians to Scheria and established their settlement there.

See evidence text
“So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Phaeacians—a people who used to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning. To his house, then, did Minerva hie in furtherance of the return of Ulysses.”

Claims

3
·Direct

King Nausithous moved the Phaeacians to Scheria, fortified and built their city, and divided its lands among them.

See evidence text
“their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people”
·Reported

Nausithous is the son of Neptune and the beautiful Periboea and an ancestor of Arete and Alcinous.

See evidence text
“They both descend originally from Neptune, who was father to Nausithous by Periboea, a woman of great beauty”
·Reported

The great Nausithous reigned over the Phaeacians and had two sons, Rhexenor and Alcinous.

See evidence text
“the great Nausithous, who reigned over the Phaeacians. Nausithous had two sons Rhexenor and Alcinous”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria”
·Disguised
“the great Nausithous, who reigned over the Phaeacians”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 1

So here Ulysses slept, overcome by sleep and toil; but Minerva went off to the country and city of the Phaeacians—a people who used to live in the fair town of Hypereia, near the lawless Cyclopes. Now the Cyclopes were stronger than they and plundered them, so their king Nausithous moved them thence and settled them in Scheria, far from all other people. He surrounded the city with a wall, built houses and temples, and divided the lands among his people; but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alcinous, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning. To his house, then, did Minerva hie in furtherance of the return of Ulysses.