Saturday 12 September 2009

Mandouki, Odysseus and Nausicaa



Odysseus came ashore at Mandouki.
Nausicaa was washing clothes in the Potamos River.
That's what the Swiss traveller, Albert Mousson, believed (Zurich, 1859).
I'm sure he was right!

"And here’s Nausicaa from Corfu,
All covered with soapy lather.
She had three murderous brothers
Down in Mandouki, and in the Spianadha."

(from Nikos Kavadias, “Paideia”, Collected Poems)

Odysseus and Nausicaa, F. Preller

Ulysses and Nausicaa, Alessandro Allori

Odysseas and Nausicaa, William McGregor Paxton



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