Buddy Ebsen Obituary. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Buddy Ebsen, who starred in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, has died after an undisclosed illness. He was 95. Ebsen died Sunday morning at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, said Pam Hope, an administrative nursing supervisor.
Phaeacia is ruled by the happy couple Alcinous and Arete, who must have reminded Odysseus of the way he and Penelope were before his departure for war. Like Odysseus and Penelope, King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia rule live on an island of sea-faring folk.
The Greeks picked up the story, which is found in its most complete form in Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. The Mycenaeans (c.1500-ll00 B.C.E.) were Greeks from the mainland who took advantage of the Minoans' weakened state to conquer Crete and assume Minoan dominance of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. They were a vigorous and active people who engaged in trade and some piracy over a wide area extending from southern Italy in the west to Troy and the Black Sea in the northeast.