In the Greek Mythology, Nausicaa (in Greek old Ναυσικάα / Nausikáa ), girl of Alcinoos, is a princess pheacian.

Myth

It is one of the characters of the Odyssey of Homère, where it is mentioned mainly with song VI, in one of the most famous scenes of the epopee. The goddess Athéna appears to him in dream under the features of one of her friends, enjoignant to him to go to wash her linen to prepare her weddings. She thus goes, accompanied by her following, to a nearby river; once the completed work, they play ball, and their cries awake Ulysses, failed not far from there after the shipwreck of its ship. Naked, dirty and famished, the hero decides to appear:

“When the horror of this body very spoiled by the sea appeared to them, it was an escape éperdue until the fringes of the strikes. There remained only the girl of Alkinoos: Athéna put to him in the heart this audacity and did not allow its members the fear. Upright, it made head… ”
(VI, 133-137)

Nausicaa takes care of Ulysses then, taking care of his toilet, giving him clothes and a collation. Then it leads it to her father. This one proposes even in Ulysses the hand of his daughter (VI, 310 and suiv.); but the hero prefers to set out again as soon as possible.

Nausicaa then more briefly appears with song VIII, where it bids its farewell with Ulysses:

“Good voyage, our host! with the country of your fathers, when you return, guard my memory! because it is with me initially that should return the price of your safety.

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