Hm. If the Phaeacian's have Gigantes blood, equally they seem to have been Meliai too. (Which makes sense given the other brother-husband/sister-wife pairs found in Greek myth, but Phaiakian is also supposed to have been one of the races sprung from the blood of Gaia and Ouranos )
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica :
"He [Hyllos] was the son of the beautiful Melite by Herakles and was born in the Phaiakian (Phaeacian) land, for his father had come to King Nausithous and the island of Makris, nurse of Dionysos, to obtain absolution for the murder of his children. There Herakles fell in love with the Naias Melite, a daughter of the River Aigaios (Aegaeus), and she bore him the mighty Hyllos."
"In the Keraunian Sea, fronting the Ionian Straits, there is a rich and spacious island [Korkyra, Corcyra] . . . Others call it the reaping-hook of Demeter Khthonie (of the Earth), who lived there once and taught the Titanes to reap corn for food, in her affection for Makris (Macris). From this reaping-hook the island takes its name of Drepane (the Sickle), the sacred Nurse of the Phaiakes (Phaeacians). "
"For that very night [the Phaiakes, Phaeacians] prepared a bridal bed for [Jason and] Medea in the sacred cave where Makris had once lived. Makris (Macris) was the daughter of Aristaios (Aristaeus), the honey-loving shepherd who discovered the secret of the bees and the riches that the olive yields in payment for our toil. It was Makris, who in Abantian Euboia, took the infant Dionysos to her bosom and moistened his parched lips with honey, when Hermes had rescued him from the flames and brought him to her. But Hera saw this and in her anger banished her from Euboia. So Makris came to the remote Phaiakian land, where she lived in the sacred cave and brought abundance to the people."
*Makris may also be called Nysa. I'm thinking Nysa means something like "Nurse"? Which means Dionysus means "God of Nursing(!?).
"Nausithous at the first was born from the earth-shaker Poseidon and Periboea, the comeliest of women, youngest daughter of great-hearted Eurymedon"
Eurymedon could be another name of Alkyoneus -or Porphyrion (a myth where Periboea is the daughter of Hera and Porphyriôn? where the Alkyonides -Phosthonia, Anthe, Methone, Alkippa, Palene, Drimo, Asterie- are hers? Certainly Dionysus was supposed to have had three Kharites by Kronois/Hera)
*Pallene/Palene might be the same that Dionysus was made to wrestle by her father to be her lover.
-According to Homer, Nausithous (the godlike) led a migration of Phaeacians from Hypereia to the island of Scheria in order to escape the lawless Cyclopes. He is the father of Alcinous and Rhexenor. Alcinous would go on to marry his niece, Rhexenor's daughter Arete. One source relates that Heracles came to Nausithous (Apollonius Rhodius) to get cleansed after the murder of his children; during his stay in the land of the Phaeacians, the hero fell in love with the nymph Melite and conceived a son Hyllus with her.
Aigaios was the Potamos of the island of the Phaiakians (Skheria (Scheria) isle identified with Black Korkyra?)
Another daughter by Rhexenor might be Chalciope (the second wife of Aegeas)?
Alcinous father of Nausicaa, Halius, Clytoneus and Laodamas with Arete.
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History :
"Asopos made his home in Phlios, where he married Metope, the daughter of Ladon, to whom were born two sons, Pelasgos and Ismenos, and twelve daughters, Korkyra (Corcyra) and Salamis, also Aigina, Peirene, and Kleone (Cleone), then Thebe, Tanagra, Thespeia, and Asopis, also Sinope, and finally Ornia and Khalkis (Chalcis) . . .
Korkyra was carried off by Poseidon to the island which was named Korkyra after her; and to her and Poseidon was born Phaiax (Phaeax), from whom the Phaiakes (Phaeacians) afterwards received the name they bear."
Phaiax (the father of Alcinous and Locrus?); Locus emigrated to Italy where he married Laurina, the daughter of Latinus.
(It may also be that when Leukothea-Ino saved Odysseus by giving him her scarf and telling him to swim for the island of the Phaiakes, she, who had once taken in Dionysus and fostered the son of her sister knew he would find safety there if she sent him to a island that called Makris a nurse of both Dionysus and nurse of their own people. )