Alkinoos
mythological figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 22 anchored passages
King Alkinoos
in the texts
Odyssey
King of the Phaeacians, husband of Arete and father of Nausicaa, who presides over the reception and hospitality shown to Odysseus.
but he was dead and gone to the house of Hades, and King Alkinoos, whose counsels were inspired of heaven, was now reigning.
Then Alkinoos said, "Stranger, it was very wrong of my daughter not to bring you on at once to my house along with the maids, seeing that she was the first person whose aid you asked.
When Alkinoos heard this he took Odysseus by the hand, raised him from the hearth, and bade him take the seat of Laodamas, who had been sitting beside him, and was his favorite son.