There was an interesting question in Lit regarding the meaning of her name, and in my research, I came across some interesting speculation on Nausikaa's distinctness. For instance, she is the one woman Odysseus does not mention to Penelope.
Modern authors have definitely "run with" this idea, but I'm wondering if anyone here has thoughts on the subject.
Note: The Wikipedia leaves out her mention in Eliot.
I always saw Nausicaa as a misunderstood fragment from a much earlier tradition.
Her Mother/father (Queen Arete & King Alcinous of Phaeacia) were clearly co-equals in an highly advanced culture(they knew not war nor the bow and trusted to their swift ships which obeyed their voice) as was King Aeolus in his steel walled floating city state.
This presupposes that the Iliad/Odyssey was mangled memory from millennia earlier.
