Alcinous (disambiguation)
- Alcinous (disambiguation)
Alcinous can mean several people from classical myth and history:
*Alcinous, a mythological king featured prominently in Homer's "Odyssey"
*Alcinous, son of Hippocoon, who in conjunction with his father and eleven brothers, expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon, but was afterwards killed, with his father and brothers, by Heracles.
*Alcinous (philosopher), a Middle Platonist philosopher
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