ALCAEUS

ălsēˈəs, c.620–c.580 b.c., Greek lyric poet of Lesbos. An aristocrat, he was often embroiled in political battles with the ruling tyrants. He wrote drinking songs, hymns, love songs, and political odes. He was, according to tradition, a close associate of Sappho. The Alcaic strophe (a four-line stanza) said to be his invention was much used by Greek lyrists and greatly admired by Horace who employed it with slight modification.

See D. Page, Sappho and Alcaeus (1955); H. Martin, Alcaeus (1972); A. P. Burnett, Three Archaic Poets (1983).

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books on: Alcaeus  - 653 results

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Collected Papers on Latin Poetry
Book by R. O. A. M. Lyne; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Latin Poetry--History And Criticism
...Horace. An alignment between Horace and Alcaeus may seem to be in prospect (Lesboum...inseres ... (1. 1. 34-5). A new Alcaeus? Sappho? The first ode is in stichic asclepiads: used by Alcaeus (112, 117(b). 1-12, and so on...
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The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers
Book by Walter Donlon; Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social Class)--Greece--Attitudes--History, Class Consciousness--Greece--Attitudes, Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C
...Boston 1978) 219. 39. Fragments of Alcaeus are quoted from E. Lobel and D. Page...the translations of D. Page, Sappho and Alcaeus (Oxford 1955). ). 40. See Page, Sappho and Alcaeus, 176. For a capsule description of the...
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Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides
Book by C. M. Bowra; Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Poets, Greek
...the summer the middle of the summer when Alcaeus brings Apollo from the Hyperboreans...sort of song that birds should sing in Alcaeus; the swallows and cicadas sing also...imitating Homers Enipeus. For, like Homer, Alcaeus is forced to make the water know that...
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The Greek Tyrants
Book by A. Andrewes; Hutchinsons University Library, 1956
Subjects: Dictators, Greece--History
...It is said that in the end he forgave and recalled Alcaeus. b ALCAEUS This is a tangled story. If we had more evidence...general comment, based on some authority who had studied Alcaeus, is given by the geographer Strabo 100 : "The city...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
...and gave his support to Myrsilus party. Alcaeus and his supporters went into exile on...ruled as tyrant until he died in 590. Alcaeus was overjoyed at his death and wrote a...policy of subduing party strife by forcing Alcaeus and his supporters to leave Lesbos altogether...
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Erica Jong, Sappho's Leap, and I: Interaction of the Novelist and the Scholar
Journal article by Robert J. Ball; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 31, 2010
Subjects: Jong, Erica--Criticism and interpretation, Jong, Erica--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Sappho's Leap (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...spellings wherever possible (e.g., Alcaeus not Alkaios, Croesus not Kroisos, and...she searches for news about her lover Alcaeus and her daughter Cleis.) Since one cannot...dark-eyed houris from the East." (Alcaeus has just hustled them into the womens...
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Celebrating the Past: Horace's Odes as Aide Memoire
Journal article by S. Thom; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Greek poets--Criticism and interpretation, Greek poets--Works, Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Horace--Works, Mnemonics--Methods, Odes (Horace) (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...mentions Pindar (4.9.6), (16) Alcaeus (4.9.7), Anacreon (4.9.9...associated with Greek poets like Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Alcman, Asclepiades...the original work of the Greek poet Alcaeus who focused on lifes vicissitudes and...
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Ronsard, Horace, and the Dynamics of Poetic Creativity
Journal article by Donald Gilman; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 88, 2009
Subjects: Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Analysis, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Ronsard, Pierre de--Criticism and interpretation
...and contributions. Horaces portrayal of Alcaeus, similar to Ronsards depiction of Belot...career of the sixth-century B.C. poet Alcaeus. Through use of the word "primum...from the pressures of daily Roman life, Alcaeus participated in political affairs and...
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From Lyrical Ballads to Lyrical Tales: Mary Robinson's Reputation and the Problem of Literary Debt
Journal article by Ashley J. Cross; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 40, 2001
Subjects: Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Robinson, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Romanticism--Analysis, Women authors--Conduct of life, Wordsworth, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...ambivalences about her as a rival poet: "Alcaeus to Sappho" and "A Stranger Minstrel...about Robinsons usurping of his title, "Alcaeus to Sappho" appeared in the Morning Post...in stanzas one and two the speaker, Alcaeus, looks on the maiden, Sappho, to register...
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Persona and Power in Horace's First Book of Epistles
Journal article by Parshia Lee-Stecum; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets, Reading
...of such poetic models as Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho which he refers to in Epistle...Archilochi musam pede mascula Sappho, temperat Alcaeus, sed rebus et ordine dispar, nec socerum...verse with the metre of Archilochus, and Alcaeus orders his likewise, although he differs...
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Contemporary Israeli Poetry
Magazine article by John Taylor; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Diseours sur le Temps (Book)--Book reviews, From Island to Island (Book)--Book reviews, J'Aeeuse (Book)--Book reviews, Let the Words: Selected Poetas (Book)--Book reviews, Love and Selected Poems (Book)--Book reviews, Qasida (Book)--Book reviews
...Schimmel is refreshingly eclectic, erudite, and, like Pincas and Shabtai, resolutely down-to-earth. If he draws on Alcaeus, Callimachus, and H #246;lderlin, he has not forgotten his American literary heritage. I hear William Carlos Williams...
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Contemporary Israeli Poetry
Magazine article by John Taylor; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, From Island to Island (Book)--Book reviews, J'Accuse (Book)--Book reviews, Let the Words: Selected Poems (Book)--Book reviews, Love and Selected Poems (Book)--Book reviews, Qasida (Book)--Book reviews
...Schimmel is refreshingly eclectic, erudite, and, like Pincas and Shabtai, resolutely down-to-earth. If he draws on Alcaeus, Callimachus, and Holderlin, he has not forgotten his American literary heritage. I hear William Carlos Williams, e...
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O Homer, Where Art Thou?
Magazine article by Katherine Eastland; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Lost Books of the Odyssey: A Novel (Novel)--Book reviews
...Oxyrhynchus, a site where many valuable papyri have been found, including the plays of Menander, fragments of Sappho and Alcaeus, and the Gospel of Thomas. While Masons premise might be alluring and clever, it contains the central problem of his novel...
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'An Army of Lovers:' the Sacred Band of Thebes
Magazine article by Louis Crompton; History Today, Vol. 44, November 1994
Subjects: Gay military personnel--History, Greece--History, Homosexuality--History
...have paid little attention to their story, but it is a remarkable one, told in some detail by Plutarch. In ancient Greece, Alcaeus, Anacreon and Pindar celebrated love between males in lyric poetry. Aeschylus, writing of the love of Achilles for Patroclus...


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Sappho, Betrayal in Vilnius, Madame X
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 22, 2003
Subjects: Jong, Erica
...and Aphrodite makes the warrior-singer Alcaeus irresistible. What fun; what a joyful...fell madly in love with golden-haired Alcaeus (almost everyone except for Sappho herself...adventures in search of her lost love, Alcaeus, take her to Delphi (where she becomes...
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Births
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 13, 2008
...Hills. Great-grandparents: Jean and Roman Sierzega of Huntley, and Evelyn and Edward A. Wrobel of New Lenox. * Caelin Alcaeus Larkin, June 8, to Matthew and Alyssa Larkin of Mundelein, brother of Ezri Asraea Larkin. Grandparents: Lester and Nancy...
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A Little Thought Goes a Long Way; RECORD PETS
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 19, 2010
...close Aug 25. September 26: Angus Kincardineshire Canine Associations Open Show in Arbroath, Angus. Secretary Mr DPJ Mowbray, Alcaeus House, Slade, Redford, Carmyllie, Angus, DD11 2RE. Tel: 01241 860528. Entries close Aug 27.
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Going Back in Time Was Write Good Fun
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 18, 2011
...Entries close: August 29. Sep 25: Angus Kincardinshire K9 Association Open Show in Arbroath. Schedules from Mr Mowbray. Alcaeus House, Slade, Redford, Carmyllie, Angus DD11 2RE Tel: 01241 860 528 Entries close: August 26. Sep 25: Chow of the Year...


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encyclopedia articles on: Alcaeus  - 8 results

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Alcaeus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALCAEUS alse s, c.620 c.580 b.c., Greek lyric poet of Lesbos...employed it with slight modification. See D. Page, Sappho and Alcaeus (1955); H. Martin, Alcaeus (1972); A. P. Burnett, Three Archaic Poets (1983...
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Lesbos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was settled by Aeolians. The island was a brilliant cultural center from the 7th to the 6th cent. b.c., when the poets Alcaeus and Sappho and the statesman Pittacus were active there. Aristotle and Epicurus lived on the island, and Theophrastus was...
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Pittacus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...became the lawgiver there, ruling for 10 years. A moderate democrat, Pittacus prevented the nobles in exile (among them Alcaeus) from returning. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Amphitryon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AMPHITRYON amfi tre n, on , in Greek mythology, son of Alcaeus. While betrothed to Alcmene, he accidentally killed her father, Electryon. Alcmene and Amphitryon fled to Thebes, but she...
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Aristarchus of Samothrace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...frequent quotations by ancient critics provide an insight into his subjects and method. His works cover such writers as Alcaeus, Anacreon, Pindar, Hesiod, and the tragedians. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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