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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Alcaeus

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

The works of Sappho and Alcaeus were among those flowers of Grecian literature which thus fell beneath the rude hand of ecclesiastical presumption.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

He was content to be an imitator of Alcaeus and Sappho, who had attuned to the lyre their own hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows of their own chequered life.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell

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