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Francesco Hayez, Ulysses at the court of Alcinous, 1814–1815.Arete is depicted on the left, sitting between Nausicaa and Alcinous. In Greek mythology, Queen Arete (/ ə ˈ r iː t iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἀρήτη means "she who is prayed for") of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas.
Nausicaa (/ n ɔː ˈ s ɪ k ɪ ə /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ναυσικάα, romanized: Nausikáa [nau̯sikáaː], or Ναυσικᾶ, Nausikâ, [nau̯sikâː]), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey. She is the daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia.
Nausicaa (Greek: Ναυσικά, Greek pronunciation:) is an opera in three acts by the Australian composer and music critic Peggy Glanville-Hicks.Most of the work's libretto was sourced from Robert Graves' 1955 novel Homer's Daughter, and it was written by Graves and the librettist Alastair Reid; the soloists' words were set in English and the choruses in Greek.
In the meantime, on the nearby island of Phaeacia, royal princess Nausicaa and her handmaidens find a shipwrecked man washed up on the shore. Due to his ordeal, the stranger has lost his memory, not even remembering his name. He is taken in by Nausicaa's parents, King Alcinous and Queen Arete, and in short time he and Nausicaa fall in love ...
After the latter's death, [3] he married his brother's daughter Arete who bore him Nausicaa, Halius, Clytoneus and Laodamas. [4] In some accounts, Alcinous' father was Phaeax, son of Poseidon and Corcyra, and brother of Locrus. [5]
Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa (oil on panel, 1619; Alte Pinakothek, Munich). Scheria or Scherie (/ ˈ s k ɪər i ə /; Ancient Greek: Σχερία or Σχερίη), also known as Phaeacia (/ f iː ˈ eɪ ʃ ə /) or Faiakia, was a region in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus in his 10-year journey ...
Her siblings were Arete (a goddess personifying virtue) and Ktesios, a minor god of household. Arete and Homonoia were referred to as the Praxidikai, taking this name after their mother. [1] As such, Homonoia was probably closely identified with the Theban Goddess-Queen Harmonia. Praxidike (Exacter of Justice): A deity whose head alone is ...
Dennis MacDonald argues in several of his books that the woman who anoints Jesus in chapter 14 of the Gospel of Mark is a reference to Eurycleia. She is the only one to recognize Jesus, and what she has done will be widely known, in the same way that Eurycleia is the only one to recognize Odysseus and whose name means "widely known".