Alcaeus
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Alcaeus may refer to several ancient Greek figures, notably:
- Alcaeus (mythology), the son of Perseus and the father of Amphitryon
- Alcaeus of Mytilene, a lyric poet of the archaic period
- Alcaeus of Messene, a Greek epigrammatist of the late 3rd/early 2nd century BC
- Alcaeus, an Epicurean philosopher who was expelled from Rome by a decree of the senate about 173 or 154 BC.[1][2][3]
- Alcaeus, incidentally spoken of by Polybius as habitually ridiculing the grammarian Isocrates.[4] It is possible that this and the above, of whom nothing further is known, may have been identical with each other, and with the Alcaeus of Messene.
- Alcaeus, mentioned in the Suda as a writer of ten plays of the Old Comedy. In 388 BC, his play Pasiphae was awarded the fifth (i.e. last) place prize. Titles and fragments of seven other plays still exist, and suggest that he worked mainly in mythological subjects.[5][6]
- Alcaeus, the original name of Heracles, according to Diodorus Siculus.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Perizon. ad Aelian. V. H. ix. 22
- ^ Athen. xii. p. 547, a.
- ^ Suda s. v. Ἐπίκουρος
- ^ Polybius, xxxii. 6, 160 BC
- ^ Dover, Kenneth James (1996), "Alcaeus (2)", in Hornblower, Simon, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ Smith, Philip (1867). "Alcaeus". in William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 96. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0105.html.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alceides". in William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 98. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0107.html.
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Ειναι επισης ονομα ενος αρχαιου παλεμιστη.Ο Αλκεος ηταν φιλος του μεγα Αλεξανδρου.Μετα απο τον πολεμο για τον θρονο του Αλεξανδρου ο Αλκεος συγκεντρωσε τις ελληνικες δυναμεις.μετα απο ενα 2μηνες κατεκτησε την Ινδια και σκοτωσε τον Πωρο.Συνεχισε περνοντας την Κυρηναϊκη,κι εφτασε μεχρι τα συνορα με το Μαροκο.Παντρευτηκε την Δαρεια,πριγκιπισσα της Αιγυπτου.Ηταν ο δυνατοτερος αντρας του Αλεξανδρου.
