# Nausicaä — The Odyssey character guide

> Nausicaä in The Odyssey by Homer.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Nausicaä

**First appearance:** 0006-book-v-departure-of-ulysses-from-calypso

## Snapshot

A Phaeacian princess sent by a dream to wash her bridal linens, who finds a shipwrecked stranger instead and greets him with startling composure.

## Who they are

Nausicaä stands at the threshold of marriage, her wedding robes unwashed and her future undecided, when Athena plants the errand that leads her to the river mouth. She faces the naked, salt-crusted Ulysses without flinching, clothes him, and calculates how to bring him into her father's court without inviting gossip. Her brief, bright presence gives the wanderer his first taste of civilized kindness in years.

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