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Phaeacia

the Phaeacians

also: Phaeacum, Phaeacians

The fabled island people who feast Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Cicero (Brutus 71) cites the songs sung at the feasts of the Phaeacians (and of the suitors) as evidence of poets before Homer.

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