Alcinous
mythological figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the hero Alcinous
in the texts
Rhetoric
Mythological king of the Phaeacians, whose name identifies the episode of Odysseus' narrated adventures, cited as a model of selective, compressed narration.
for instance, the story of Alcinous, because in the presence of Penelope it is reduced to sixty lines, and the way in which Phayllus dealt with the epic cycle, and the prologue to the Oeneus.
Letters
Homeric king of the Phaeacians who hosted and listened to Odysseus's tales.
So that not for a year only, as Alcinous listened to Odysseus, but for all my life I would pray to listen to you, and on this account at least this life would seem long to me, even though I am ill-disposed toward it.
Orations
King of the Phaeacians, whose richly adorned palace is cited by Philip.
For the palace of Alcinous, a Greek man and an islander, he adorned not only with gardens and plants and waters, so as to be most pleasant to dwell in, but with golden statues as well.
Republic
A legendary king referenced as the audience of another famous tale, invoked to distinguish it from the tale of Er about to be told.
It is not, let me tell you, said I, the tale to Alcinous told that I shall unfold, but the tale of a warrior bold, Er, the son of Armenius, by race a Pamphylian.
De Pallio
Mythological king whose proverbial orchard is used as a comparison.
Truly the globe is the most cultivated country-estate of this empire, every aconite of hostility uprooted, and the cactus and bramble of treacherous familiarity torn out, and it is more pleasant than the orchard of Alcinous and the rose-garden of Midas.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The legendary Phaeacian hero associated with Corcyra, to whom, alongside Jupiter, a sacred grove there is dedicated.
Having been acquitted, he brought to trial in return the five richest individuals of their party, charging them with cutting stakes in the ground sacred to Jupiter and to [the hero] Alcinous;