Editing Utopia (section)

===Scheria===

Perhaps the oldest Utopia of which we know, as pointed out many years ago by [[Moses Finley]],<ref>M.I.Finley, World of Odysseus, 1954, 100.</ref> is [[Homer]]'s [[Scheria]], island of the [[Phaeacians]].<ref>Homer Odyssey 6:251-7:155</ref> A mythical place, often equated with classical [[Corcyra]], (modern [[Corfu]]/[[Kerkyra]]), where [[Odysseus]] was washed ashore after 10 years of storm-tossed wandering and escorted to the King's palace by his daughter [[Nausicaa]]. With stout walls, a stone temple and good harbours, it is perhaps the 'ideal' [[Greek colony]], a model for those founded from the middle of the 8th Century onward. A land of plenty, home to expert mariners (with the self-navigating ships), and skilled craftswomen who live in peace under their king's rule and fear no strangers.

[[Plutarch]], the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the blissful and mythic past of humanity.