Alcinous

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Alcinous)

Life events

• Alcinous sent Odysseus home with gifts, but Poseidon petrified the ship and buried the Phaeacian city.(Apollodorus, Epitome 7)
  • With: Odysseus Nausicaa Poseidon
  • “when Ulysses implored her protection, she brought him to Alcinous, who entertained him, and after bestowing gifts on him sent him away with a convoy to his native land. But Poseidon was wroth with the Phaeacians, and he turned the ship to stone and enveloped the city with a mountain.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• ward: Medea “He answered, that if she already knew Jason, he would give her to him, but that if she were still a maid he would send her away to her father.”
• married with Arete “Arete, wife of Alcinous”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• child: Nausicaa (parent->child) “Nausicaa, the daughter of king Alcinous”
• with Odysseus (interaction) “she brought him to Alcinous, who entertained him, and after bestowing gifts on him sent him away”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.