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

Others exhibited in preference scenes taken from the life of Heracles, the Theban, through flattery to Candaules, himself a Heracleid, being descended from the hero through Alcaeus.

From King Candaules by Hearn, Lafcadio

It is such a life of contrasts and excitements, working on a sensuous and fiery temperament, that is reflected in the fragments of Alcaeus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various