(), 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. (Hom. Od. 6.310,
7.65, &c., 142.) Respecting her connexion with the story
of Jason and Medeia, see ALCINOUS.[L.S]