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Alcinous or Alkínoös (Gr.
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 ) was in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 a son of Nausithous
Nausithous

In Greek mythology, Nausithous was a son of Poseidon with Periboea. He was King of Phaeacia and later settled on Scheria with his people. He had two sons, Alcinous and Rhexenor....
, or of Phaeax
Phaeax (mythology)

Phaeax , in Greek mythology, was a son of Poseidon and Korkyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. Conon calls him the father of Alcinous and Locrus....
 (son of Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Corcyra), and father of Nausicaa
Nausicaa

In ancient Greek mythology, Nausicaa is the daughter of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians and Queen Arete in Homer's Odyssey , Book Six. Her name means, in Greek, "burner of ships"....
, Halius, and Laodamas
Laodamas

In Greek mythology, La?damas referred to three different people.#Son of Antenor and Theano.#Son of Alcinous and Arete .#Son of Eteocles. Laodamas inherited Thebes from his father....
 with Arete
Arete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
. His name literally means "mighty mind". He married his brother Rhexenor's daughter after Rhexenor was killed.

he myth of the Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
 and the Argonauts
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
, Alcinous is represented as living with his queen Arete
Arete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
 in Drepane. The Argonauts, on their return from Colchis
Colchis

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgia , state monarchy and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgians and its subgroups....
, came to his island, and were hospitably received.






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Alcinous or Alkínoös (Gr.
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 ) was in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 a son of Nausithous
Nausithous

In Greek mythology, Nausithous was a son of Poseidon with Periboea. He was King of Phaeacia and later settled on Scheria with his people. He had two sons, Alcinous and Rhexenor....
, or of Phaeax
Phaeax (mythology)

Phaeax , in Greek mythology, was a son of Poseidon and Korkyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. Conon calls him the father of Alcinous and Locrus....
 (son of Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Corcyra), and father of Nausicaa
Nausicaa

In ancient Greek mythology, Nausicaa is the daughter of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians and Queen Arete in Homer's Odyssey , Book Six. Her name means, in Greek, "burner of ships"....
, Halius, and Laodamas
Laodamas

In Greek mythology, La?damas referred to three different people.#Son of Antenor and Theano.#Son of Alcinous and Arete .#Son of Eteocles. Laodamas inherited Thebes from his father....
 with Arete
Arete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
. His name literally means "mighty mind". He married his brother Rhexenor's daughter after Rhexenor was killed.

Mythography

In the myth of the Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
 and the Argonauts
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
, Alcinous is represented as living with his queen Arete
Arete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
 in Drepane. The Argonauts, on their return from Colchis
Colchis

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgia , state monarchy and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgians and its subgroups....
, came to his island, and were hospitably received. When the Colchians, in their pursuit of the Argo­nauts, likewise arrived in Drepane, and demanded that Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
's lover Medea
Medea

Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Aeetes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children: Mermeros and Pheres....
 should be delivered up to them, Alci­nous declared that if she was still a maiden she should be restored to them, but if she was already the wife of Jason, he would protect her and her husband against the Colchians. The Colchians were obliged, by the contrivance of Arete, to depart with­out their princess, and the Argonauts continued their voyage homeward, after they had received expensive presents from Alcinous.

According to Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
, Alcinous is the happy ruler of the Phaiakians in the island of Scheria
Scheria

Scheria , also Scherie or Phaeacia, was a region of land in the eastern Mediterranean in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaiakians and the last destination of Odysseus before returning home to Homer's Ithaca....
, who has by Arete five sons and one daugh­ter, Nausicaa. The description of his palace and his dominions, the mode in which Odysseus is received, the enter­tainments given to him, and the stories he related to the king about his own wanderings, occupy a considerable portion of Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's Odyssey
Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization epic poetrys attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer....
 (from book vi. to xiii.), and form one of its most charming parts.

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