person
Alcinous
King of the Phaeacians in the Odyssey, whose fabled orchards bore fruit in every season; byword for natural abundance.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.10 Alcinous's
King of the Phaeacians whose orchards bore fruit in every season; figure for natural, ungrudging abundance.
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 munificent Alcinous
Alcinous, the generous Phaeacian king who sped the shipwrecked Ulysses home; a model of the open-handed host, set against the cannibal Antiphates.
- Metamorphoses §14.456 the stern of Alcinous stiffen and the wood grow into stone
Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians; Neptune turned the ship that carried Odysseus home into stone in revenge (Odyssey 13.159-164).