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

Iconographie des Phéaciens et de Nausicaa