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    Alcaeus of Mytilene (/ælˈsiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios; c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek...
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  • Alcaeus and Philiscus (or Alcius and Philiscus; fl. 2nd century BC) were two Epicurean philosophers who were expelled from Rome in either 173 BC or 154...
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  • Aporia. Amechania was mentioned by ancient Greek authors such as Alcaeus and Herodotus. Alcaeus, fr. 364 Herodotus, Histories 8.111.1 Herodotus, The Histories...
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  • invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary...
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  • mythology, Alcaeus /ælˈsiːəs/ or Alkaios (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος derived from alke "strength") was the name of a number of different people: Alcaeus, was a...
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    Alcaeus Hooper (January 2, 1859 – July 1, 1938) was the Mayor of Baltimore from November 20, 1895, to November 17, 1897. Alcaeus Hooper was born in Baltimore...
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  • Ptocheia. Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus (Fragment 364), Theognis (Fragment 1; 267, 351, 649), Aristophanes (Plutus...
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    innovations. Aeolic Greek is widely known as the language of Sappho and of Alcaeus of Mytilene. Aeolic poetry, which is exemplified in the works of Sappho...
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  • Look up alcaeus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alcaeus may refer to: Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC), a Greek lyric poet Alcaeus (comic...
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  • may refer to: Guneus, a man from Pheneus and father of Laonome, wife of Alcaeus. Through his daughter, he was the grandfather of Amphitryon, Anaxo and...
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  • forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect. These verse forms were taken...
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    by most ancient sources, who considered her a contemporary of the poet Alcaeus and the tyrant Pittacus, both also from Lesbos. She therefore may have...
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  • Alcaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος), the son of Miccus, was an Athenian comic poet. His comedies marked the transition between Old Comedy and Middle Comedy...
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    "harassing either side", Latin: Amphitruo), in Greek mythology, was a son of Alcaeus, king of Tiryns in Argolis. His mother was named either Astydameia, the...
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    Sappho and Alcaeus is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It is held by the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore. The...
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  • Alcaeus of Messene (/ælˈsiːəs/; Greek: Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μεσσήνιος) was an ancient Greek poet, who flourished between 219 and 196 BC. Twenty-two of his short...
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    Ancient Greek most famously known for its use by poets like Sappho and Alcaeus from Lesbos, and Corinna from Boeotia. The name derives from Aeolus, the...
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    encyclopedic movement at Alexandria produced a canon of the nine melic poets: Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, and...
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    Horace; the odes of Horace deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon. Irregular odes use rhyme, but not the three-part form of...
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  • -os means something different, namely the feverish chill . . . Alkaios (Alcaeus) called it epialos. Apollonios says that Epialtes itself (the nighmare...
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