in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus (later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be...

Look up alcaeus (disambiguation) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alcaeus may refer to: Alcaeus of Mytilene (c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC), a Greek lyric...

mythology, Alcaeus /ælˈsiːəs/ or Alkaios (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος derived from alke "strength") was the name of a number of different people: Alcaeus, was a...

Sappho and Alcaeus is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch-British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, from 1881. It is held by the Walters Art Museum, in...

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...

imagining the existence of an epigrammatist named Alcaeus under the emperor Titus. Those epigrams of Alcaeus which bear internal evidence of their date were...

Aporia. Amechania was mentioned by ancient Greek authors such as Alcaeus and Herodotus. Alcaeus, fr. 364 Herodotus, Histories 8.111.1 Herodotus, The Histories...

(Μέρρος) burned the head. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus, and two daughters,...

In Greek mythology, Anaxo (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξώ) was the daughter of Alcaeus (son of Perseus and Andromeda) and Astydameia (daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia)...

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...

play Plutus. Fabricius mentions another Alcaeus, a tragedian. This appears to be the same person as Alcaeus the comic poet. Fragments of ten plays have...

represented in Alcaeus' work (e.g. Alcaeus frr. 34, 42, 45, 308b, 362). Alcaeus frr. 38a and 141 use the same meter as Book II of Sappho, and Alcaeus frr. 340...

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...

many classes and establishing the Ecclesia. 593 BC—Exile of Sappho and Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene in Sicily. 592 BC—Early history of Sudan: An Egyptian...

in January 1896. In the play, Anactoria is initially loved by the poet Alcaeus, who leaves her for Sappho. In his 1961 collection Imitations, the American...

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...

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...

Voigt = Alcaeus 256 Lobel-Page l.5; cf. frr. 8, 49, 96, 131, and fr. 214C Campbell) and a mention of Abanthis (inc. auc. 35 Voigt = Alcaeus 261b col...

a six-headed Hydra, its number of heads was first fixed in writing by Alcaeus (c. 600 BC), who gave it nine heads. Simonides, writing a century later...

Proetus ruled in Argos. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus, and two daughters,...

encyclopedic movement at Alexandria produced a canon of the nine melic poets: Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Ibycus, Pindar, Sappho, Simonides, and...

with a reference to Alcaeus, fr. 406 & Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 886 ff. Etymologicum Genuinum fr. 151 with a reference to Alcaeus, fr. 406 This article...

yellow). Orpheus Mosaic in Rottweil Alcaeus of Mytilene playing a cithara while Sappho listens in Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881; The...

Press. Alcæus of Mytilene (1982), "Fragment 34", in David A. Campbell (ed.), Sappho, Alcaeus. Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Alcæus of Mytilene...

to have it roll back down when he got close to the top. A fragment of Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of the 6th century BC, refers to this episode: King...

Africo, 47) and Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia, book 2, par. 101), Alcaeus frag. 34. Earlier, Xenophanes of Colophon had alluded to the phenomenon...

first mention of Acheron as the river the dead must cross is found in Alcaeus, fr. 38A Campbell [= P. Oxy. 1233 fr. 1 ii 8–20 + 2166(b)1 = fr. 38A Lobel-Page...

known from an epigram uncovered in Dyme, Achaea, which is ascribed to Alcaeus of Messene: according to it, Polystratus accompanied Heracles in his campaign...

Apuleius September 24, 1960 Palomar PLS  · 2.3 km MPC · JPL 12607 Alcaeus 2058 P-L Alcaeus September 24, 1960 Palomar PLS  · 5.9 km MPC · JPL 12608 Aesop...

numbering used throughout is from Eva-Maria Voigt's 1971 edition of Sappho and Alcaeus. Hephaistion uses the Ode to Aphrodite to illustrate the Sapphic stanza...