Alcinous

Character · slug: alcinous

Stories (11)

Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
Return to Ithaca: Disguise and Eumaeus (*Odyssey* 13–16)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 13–16 (compressed)
Phaeacians: Nausicaa, Alcinous, and the Escort Home (*Odyssey* 6–8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nostoi · Homeric — *Odyssey* 6–8
Nausicaa Meets Odysseus (*Odyssey* 6)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — river meeting and guidance isolated from Alcinous’s hall
Demodocus Sings of Troy: Odysseus Weeps (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court · Homeric — blind bard’s Trojan lays; tears that betray the hero
The Phaeacian Games (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians · Homeric — athletic contests before Odysseus’s apologue
The Phaeacian Ship Turned to Stone (*Odyssey* 13)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacians / Poseidon’s wrath · Homeric — Poseidon petrifies the returning escort ship; Scheria’s future sealed
Arete: Phaeacian Queen and Counselor (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / Scheria · Homeric — Arete’s authority among the Phaeacians; Odysseus’s appeal
Demodocus Sings the Wooden Horse (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian court / Trojan War in song · Homeric — bard’s lay of the horse; Odysseus weeps
Catalogue of Heroines in the Nekyia (*Odyssey* 11)
Trojan — Odyssey / Nekyia / heroic genealogy in Hades · Homeric — blood-drinking shades of famous women; Hesiodic-style catalogue embedded in nostos
Euryalus Insults Odysseus (*Odyssey* 8)
Trojan — Odyssey / Phaeacian games / guest ethics · Homeric — Broadsea’s taunt; discus throw; apology gift

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Alcinous

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