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Nausicaä is the name of a Phaeacian princess who appears in the Odyssey. I first learned of her from Bernard Evslin’s book Gods, Demigods & Demons: An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology (published as part of Shakai Shisōsha’s Modern Educational Pocketbooks series and translated by Minoru Kobayashi), and I was instantly attracted to her. After that

Nor is she simply a memory machine, one of those prototypical top students with a capacity for ingesting vast amounts of unfiltered information. She is sensitive and acute, her opinions are unfailingly original, and, shy and nervous as she is, she stubbornly holds her ground in any argument.