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 Baltimore...
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poetry, and a fifth-century red-figure vase by either the Dokimasia Painter or Brygos Painter includes Sappho and Alcaeus with barbitoi. Sappho mentions...
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some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead. The canonic nine are traditionally divided into two groups, with Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon, being 'monodists'...
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Aeolic verse (section Sappho and Alcaeus' verse)
part of Sappho's surviving poetry, is also well represented in Alcaeus' work (e.g. Alcaeus frr. 34, 42, 45, 308b, 362). Alcaeus frr. 38a and 141 use the...
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her contemporary Alcaeus. Modern editions of Sappho also collect ancient "testimonia" which discuss Sappho's life and works. Sappho probably wrote around...
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Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho, London: Duckworth, 1983, p. 220 Sampson, C. Michael. "A New Reconstruction of Sappho 44". p. 54. Voigt, E. M. Sappho et Alcaeus. Polak...
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Aeolic Greek (category Pages with non-English text lacking appropriate markup and no ISO hint)
Attic, Ionic, and Doric varieties), as well as many innovations. Aeolic Greek is widely known as the language of Sappho and of Alcaeus of Mytilene. Aeolic...
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poets like Sappho and Alcaeus from Lesbos, and Corinna from Boeotia. The name derives from Aeolus, the mythical ancestor of the Aeolians and son of Hellen...
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more concerned with her agency than Alcaeus' is. While in Alcaeus, Paris is the "deceiver of his host", in Sappho his role is more of a passive object...
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590s BC (section Events and trends)
extending citizenship to males of many classes and establishing the Ecclesia. 593 BC—Exile of Sappho and Alcaeus (Alkaios) of Mytilene in Sicily. 592 BC—Early...
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Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, p. 192 Swanson, Alma-Tadema, p. 29 "Sappho and Alcaeus". Walters Art Museum. Norwich, John Julius (1990). Oxford Illustrated...
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Ode to Aphrodite (redirect from Ode to Venus (Sappho))
The Ode to Aphrodite (or Sappho fragment 1) is a lyric poem by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE...
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I:Sappho and Alcaeus. Cambridge, Mass. ISBN 0-674-99157-5. OCLC 8805576.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) D. L. Davis and R...
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Anactoria (category Sappho)
woman mentioned in the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. Sappho, who wrote in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, names Anactoria as the...
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Denys Page (section Early life and education)
publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) Page, Denys Lionel; Sappho; Alcaeus (1955). Sappho and Alcaeus; introduction to the study of ancient Lesbian poetry....
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Sapphic stanza (category Sappho)
Horace or in other poets. The metre is not found in the fragments of Sappho and Alcaeus. The Sapphic stanza was one of the few classical quantitative meters...
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Alcaic stanza (section In Alcaeus' poetry)
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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poets: Pindar in 1.12, Sappho in 1.13, Alcaeus in 1.14, Bacchylides in 1.15, Stesichorus in 1.16, Anacreon in 1.17, and Alcaeus again in 1.18. The book...
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Midnight poem (category Sappho)
archaic Lesbian dialect found elsewhere in the works of Sappho and Alcaeus. Those who believe that Sappho did compose the poem argue that the evidence that...
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Edgar Lobel (section Early life and education)
Sappho and Alcaeus in collaboration with Denys Page. His contributions to the fields of papyrology and Greek studies were many and substantial, and Eric...
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Uranus (mythology) (redirect from Uranus (Greek religion and mythology))
Harvard University Press. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus, Loeb Classical Library No. 142, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard...
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Greek lyric (section Elegy and Iambus)
different kinds, and can be of varying lengths. Some lyric meters were used for monody (solo songs), such as some of the poems of Sappho and Alcaeus; others were...
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edition of the works of Sappho and Alcaeus, which itself follows with minor variations the numbering used by Edgar Lobel and Denys Page in their 1955...
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Press. Alcæus of Mytilene (1982), "Fragment 34", in David A. Campbell (ed.), Sappho, Alcaeus. Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus. Alcæus of Mytilene...
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Eros (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
2004). Hugo Wolf and his Mörike Songs. United Kingdom, United States: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-511-03282-X. Sappho; Alcaeus (1982). David A....
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Homosexuality (section Sexuality and identity)
Denys Page, Sappho and Alcaeus, Oxford UP, 1959, pp.142–146. Campbell, David A., ed. (1982). "Introduction". Greek Lyric I:Sappho and Alcaeus. Cambridge...
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ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2. Internet Archive. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus, Loeb Classical Library No. 142, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard...
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Lesbos (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
the "Island of the Poets", alluding to renowned native poets like Alcaeus and Sappho. Lesbos has been inhabited since at least 3000 BC. The oldest artifacts...
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Styx (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
ISBN 978-0-8018-9029-1. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus, Loeb Classical Library No. 142, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard...
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Mytilene (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
and became the centre of the island's prosperous eastern hinterland.[citation needed] Her most famous citizens were the poets Sappho and Alcaeus and the...
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