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List of Gods : "Phaea" - 9 records

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"Aphaea"
Greek Aka Britomartis, appears to have originally been a Cretan divinity of hunters and fishermen. Her name is usually derived from sweet or blessing, and a maiden, so that the name would mean, the sweet or blessing maiden. Greek
King name
"Arete"
Greek The wife of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. In the Odyssey she appears as a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband, and when Odysseus arrived in the island, he first applied to queen Arete to obtain hospitable reception and protection. Respecting her connexion with the story of Jason and Medeia.
King name
"Arete"
Greek The wife of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. In the Odyssey she appears as a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband, and when Odysseus arrived in the island, he first applied to queen Arete to obtain hospitable reception and protection. Respecting her connexion with the story of Jason and Medeia, see Alcinous. Greek
Goddess name
"Coryphaea"
Greek The goddess who inhabits the summit of the mountain, a surname of Artemis. Greek
King name
"Laodamas 1"
Greek A son of Aleinous, king of the Phaeacians, and Arete, was the favourite of his father.
King name
"Nausithous"
Greek A son of Poseidon with Periboea the daughter of Eurymedon, was the father of Alcinous and Rhexenor, and king of the Phaeacians, whom he led from Hypereia in Thrinacia to the island of Scheria, in order to escape from the Cyclopes. Greek

"Phaea"
Greek The name of the sow of Crommyon, which ravaged the neighbourhood, and was slain by Theseus.

"Phaeax"
Greek A son of Poseidon and Cercyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name.
King name
"Rhexenor"
Greek Two mythical personages, one the father of Chalciope, and the second a son of Nausithous the king of the Phaeacians, and accordingly a brother of Alcinous. (Apollodorus iii) Greek