Alcinous (son of the Hippocoon)
Alkinoos ( ancient Greek Ἀλκίνοος ) is a person of Greek mythology .
He is the son of the hippocoon from Amyklai . Together with his father and his brothers Dorykleus , Skaios , Bukolos , Enarophoros , Euteiches , Lykaithos , Tebros , Hippothoos , Eurytos , Hippokorystes , and Alkon , he drives the rulers of Sparta , Ikarios and Tyndareos , out of the city. Hippocoon and all his sons are killed by Heracles , whereupon Tyndareus takes control again.
literature
- C. Fleischer: Alcinous 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 240 ( digitized version ).