It is not to be compared with the Phaeacian stories of the adventures of Odysseus.

No one can reasonably doubt that the list of Phaeacian athletes is the invention of one man.

This poem includes the Phaeacian episode, and the account of Ulysses' adventures as told by himself in Books ix.-xii.

Here the Phaeacian leaders used to sit, drinking and eating, holding constant cheer.