Arete

Family: Phaeacian · Role: queen · First appears: Book IV 8

Life events

• Arete gives Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace.(Book IV 10)
  • With: Medea
  • “moreover she gave Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace, to bear her company.”

Book IV 8

• married with Alcinous “and often with her hands touched the knees of Arete, the bride of Aleinous”
• protégé: Medea “And the maiden in deadly fear often implored the comrades of Aeson’s son, and often with her hands touched the knees of Arete, the bride of Aleinous: “I beseech thee, O queen, be gracious and deliver me not to the Colchians to be borne to my father”

Book IV 9

• married with Alcinous “Now within the palace in the city, as aforetime, lay lordly Alcinous and Arete, the revered wife of Alcinous”
• protégé: Medea “Yea, my friend, come, save the woe-stricken maid from the Colchians and show grace to the Minyae.”
• with Jason (interaction) “in her prudence urging Aeson’s son to wed the maiden”

Book IV 10

• patron: Hera (Hera influences Arete to proclaim Alcinous's judgment.) “for it was thou that didst put it into the heart of Arete to proclaim the wise word of Alcinous.”
• with Medea (Arete gives Medea twelve attendants.) “moreover she gave Medea twelve Phaeacian handmaids from the palace, to bear her company.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.