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ALCINOUS (ALKINoos)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 523 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALCINOUS (ALKINoos)  , in
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ancient
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Greek
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legend,
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king of the fabulous Phaeacians, in the
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island of Scheria, was the son of Nausithous and
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grandson of
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Poseidon . His reception and entertainment of
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Odysseus, who when
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cast by a
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storm on the
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shore of the island was relieved by the king's daughter,
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Nausicaa, is described in the Odyssey (vi.-xiii.) . The gardens and
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palace of
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Alcinous and the wonderful
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ships of the Phaeacian mariners were famous in antiquity . Scheria was identified in very
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early times with Corcyra, where Alcinous was reverenced as a
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hero . In the Argonautic legend, his
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abode was the island of Drepane (Apoll . Rhodius iv . 990) .

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