Phaeacians, the Mysterious Civilization That Lived on Greece’s Island of Corfu

Phaeacians, the Mysterious Civilization That Lived on Greece’s Island of Corfu

Ancient depiction of a Liburnian ship from the Novilara tablets, fifth or sixth century BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY 3.0 In Homer’s Odyssey, written in the seventh century BCE, a mysterious civilization called the Phaeacians helps Odysseus on his journey home to Ithaca from Troy. What do we know about these enigmatic people? Many scholars agree that the evidence indicates that the Phaeacians were a civilization based on Corfu (Kerkyra).…