Book VI · Episode 1 of 4
Athena Sends Nausicaä
Athena urges Nausicaä to request a wagon
Scenes
- Athena’s Dream Visit — Athena urges Nausicaä to wash robes
- Athena leaves sleeping Odysseus for Phaeacia
- Goddess disguised as Dymas’s daughter
- Scolds princess for neglecting wedding robes
- Lavers lie far from town
- Withdraws to Olympus’s eternal calm
- Nausicaä’s Request — Nausicaä asks Alcinoüs for a wagon
- Mother spins sea-purple wool at hearth
- Father departs for council with chiefs
- Cites vestments and brothers’ attire
- Omits her own coming marriage
- Alcinoüs guesses reason, orders mules yoked