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two harbours of the Phaeacian city

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Canonical name
two harbours of the Phaeacian city
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Collective
Parent location
Scheria
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Claims

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·Reported

Two good harbours flank the Phaeacian city’s narrow entrance.

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“running all round it, and a good harbour on either side with a narrow entrance into the city”
·Direct

Ulysses admires the Phaeacian harbours as he passes through the city.

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“He admired their harbours, ships, places of assembly”

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·Reported
“a good harbour on either side with a narrow entrance into the city”
·Direct
“He admired their harbours”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 21

‘Stranger,’ said she, ‘rise and let us be going back to the town; I will introduce you at the house of my excellent father, where I can tell you that you will meet all the best people among the Phaeacians. But be sure and do as I bid you, for you seem to be a sensible person. As long as we are going past the fields and farm lands, follow briskly behind the waggon along with the maids and I will lead the way myself. Presently, however, we shall come to the town, where you will find a high wall running all round it, and a good harbour on either side with a narrow entrance into the city, and the ships will be drawn up by the road side, for every one has a place where his own ship can lie. You will see the market place with a temple of Neptune in the middle of it, and paved with large stones bedded in the earth. Here people deal in ship’s gear of all kinds, such as cables and sails, and here, too, are the places where oars are made, for the Phaeacians are not a nation of archers; they know nothing about bows and arrows, but are a sea-faring folk, and pride themselves on their masts, oars, and ships, with which they travel far over the sea.