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See also:ALCINOUS (ALKINoos) , in See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:legend, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the fabulous Phaeacians, in the See also:island of Scheria, was the son of Nausithous and See also:grandson of See also:Poseidon. His reception and entertainment of See also:Odysseus, who when See also:cast by a See also:storm on the See also:shore of the island was relieved by the king's daughter, See also:Nausicaa, is described in the Odyssey (vi.-xiii.). The gardens and See also:palace of Alcinous and the wonderful See also:ships of the Phaeacian mariners were famous in antiquity. Scheria was identified in very See also:early times with Corcyra, where Alcinous was reverenced as a See also:hero. In the Argonautic legend, his See also:abode was the island of Drepane (Apoll. Rhodius iv. 990).
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