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Nausicaa & Maids Play Ball while Laundry Dries

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Ball in the Culture, FemalesBall in the Culture, Females
Location	Scheria or Phaeacia (legendary)Scheria or Phaeacia (legendary)
City/State/Country:	Scheria or Phaeacia (legendary)
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Game	BallBall
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Age of Players	YouthYouth
Holiday
Notables	Nausicaa
Text	Nausicaa, going to a river near that place to wash the clothes of her father, mother, and brethren, while the clothes were drying played with her maids at ball; and Odysseus coming forth is fed and clothed, and led on his way to the house of her father, King Alcinous.
Sources	The Odyssey, Homer, Book VI
Warning	Even Homer nods
Comment	(wikipedia) Nausicaä is young and very pretty; Odysseus says that she resembles a goddess, particularly Artemis. According to Aristotle and Dictys of Crete, Nausicaä later married Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, and had a son named Ptoliporthus. Edit with form to add a comment
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850c.1 Nausicaa & Maids Play Ball while Laundry Dries"

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