The Odyssey

The Stranger a Ball Game Saved

The sea 3, Nausicaa

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Young women with flowing robes play with a ball, one kneeling, while Athena appears in the sky above.
Design by John Flaxman, engraved by Achille Réveil, The Odyssey, Paris (Audot), 1835Original

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A man lay asleep in the reeds. His body was crusted with salt and stripped of skin, and dry leaves covered him.

At that same hour a princess dreamed in the palace. “The washing is piling up, will you leave it?” It was Athena wearing the face of a friend.

In the morning Nausicaa asked her father for a cart. She was going to the river to wash clothes, she said, and Alcinous laughed and gave her the mules.

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