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Nausicaa (second from right) with Athena and Odysseus. Detail of an Attic red-figured amphora from Vulci (c. 440 BC)Nausicaa (/ n ɔː ˈ s ɪ k ɪ ə /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ναυσικάα, romanized: Nausikáa [nau̯sikáaː], or Ναυσικᾶ, Nausikâ, [nau̯sikâː]), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ, Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982–94 manga series of the same name.
In 2007, Nausicaa welcomed its ten millionth visitor. In 2008, it opened a new interactive multimedia exhibit called “Planet Nausicaa,” as well as exhibitions that focus on Madagascar and the Mozambique Channel. [7] In 2018, the largest expansion for Nausicaa in its history happened with a large new gallery named "The High Seas".
Nausicaä (/ ˈ n ɔː s ɪ k ə / no-sih-kə; Naushika (ナウシカ, [naɯꜜɕi̥ka])), renamed Princess Zandra in the Manson International Warriors of the Wind English dub, is a fictional character from Hayao Miyazaki's science fiction manga series Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and his anime film of the same name.
Nausicaa (disambiguation) List of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind characters; Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo, a 2012 Japanese short film
Nausicaa is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1878. History. Nausicaa, a full-length girlish figure, in green and white draperies, standing ...
Nausicaa (Greek: Ναυσικά, Greek pronunciation:) is an opera in three acts by the Australian composer and music critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks.Most of the work's libretto was sourced from Robert Graves' 1955 novel Homer's Daughter, and it was written by Graves and the librettist Alastair Reid; the soloists' words were set in English and the choruses in Greek.
The titular character of the manga was named after the Greek princess, Nausicaa, whose name means "burner of ships". [ 12 ] Miyazaki had given other names to the main character during development, but he settled on Nausicaä based on the name of the Greek princess of the same name from the Odyssey , as portrayed in Bernard Evslin 's ...