Alcinous

[5] In the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, Alcinous is represented as living with his wife Arete on Drépané island.

The Colchians were obliged, by the contrivance of Arete, to depart without their princess, and the Argonauts continued their voyage homeward, after they had received expensive presents from Alcinous.

According to Homer, Alcinous is the happy ruler of the Phaiacians in the island of Scheria, who has by Arete five sons and one daughter, Nausicaa.

[9] The description of his palace and his dominions, the mode in which Odysseus is received, the entertainments given to him, and the stories he related to the king about his own wanderings, occupy a considerable portion of Homer's Odyssey (from book vi.

In Conon's Narrations, when Phaiax who reigned on the island of Corcyra died, Alkinous and his brother Lokros, after quarreling agreed upon on the basis that Alcinous would be the king of the Phaeacians and Locrus would take the heirlooms and part of the ethnos to make a colony.

Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous by Francesco Hayez . The blind minstrel Demodocus is playing the harp.
Demodocos singing to Odysseus and Alcinous, illustration by John Flaxman (1810)