Alcaeus

American  

[al-see-uhs] / ælˈsi əs /

noun

1. flourished c600 b.c., Greek poet of Mytilene.

2. Classical Mythology. a son of Androgeus and a grandson of Minos.

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Alcaeus British  

/ ælˈsɪəs /

noun

1. 7th century _bc , Greek lyric poet who wrote hymns, love songs, and political odes

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Example Sentences

Sappho belonged to one of these—there’s a fragment in which she chastises a friend “of bad character” for siding with a rival clan—and a famous literary contemporary, a poet called Alcaeus, belonged to another.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

Ode one/nine is written in Alcaics, a four-lined, largely dactylic strophe named after the Greek poet Alcaeus: it's the commonest verse-form in the Odes, a flexible form-for-all-seasons.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

In those earlier years he was called Alcides, or descendant of Alcaeus who was Amphitryon’s father.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

According to an epigram quoted by Vossius from the Anthologia, Alcaeus, the comic writer, died under this very punishment.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Like Samnite gladiators in slow duel, till candle-light, we are beaten and waste out the enemy with equal blows: I came off Alcaeus, in his suffrage; he is mine, who?

From The Works of Horace by Horace