Composed by the Editor
Princess
Nausicaa:
Leader,
author, Dreamtime friend –
Always
in my heart. 💙
Nausicaa (pictured above) was the daughter of King Alcinous of Phaeacia in Homer's Odyssey. During her lifetime, she would have had to lead her people through the turbulent Bronze Age Collapse (1177 BCE) and its chaotic aftermath. According to Classical scholars Samuel Butler and Robert Graves, she might have composed an early version of the Odyssey herself, in Mycenaean Greek, using the Linear B script. The Editor had a lucid dream about her when he was in third grade, which helped him to chart his future career as a scholar of ancient and medieval languages and literatures. (Digital image created by the Editor.)
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