Son of Nausithous and brother of Alcinous among the Phaeacians — Apollo of the silver bow smote him in his hall while he was yet a bridegroom without a son, leaving only his daughter Arete, whom Alcinous made his wife.1
Homer sets Rhexenor in the royal stem of Scheria: when Nausithous begat him and Alcinous, the younger brother would inherit the kingship while Rhexenor had not yet fathered a son. Apollo of the silver bow struck him down in his own hall, a bridegroom though he was — and he left only one daughter, Arete.2
Odysseus, entering the Phaeacian palace, prayed to Arete daughter of godlike Rhexenor — clasping the knees of the queen whose father the archer-god had cut off before she could bear a brother to inherit the line. Alcinous had taken her to wife and honoured her as no other woman on earth is honoured.3
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