Alcman (/ˈælkmən/; Greek: Ἀλκμάν Alkmán; fl.  7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of...

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21-23. Hard 2004, p. 46; Keightley, p. 55; Alcman fr. 57 Campbell, pp. 434, 435. Cook 1914, p. 456; Smith, s.v. Selene. Homeric...

that Oceanus (and possibly Tethys, too) is the parent of all the deities. Alcman (fl. 7th century BCE) called Thetis the first goddess, producing poros (path)...

Online version at Internet Archive Bowra, C. M., Greek Lyric Poetry: From Alcman to Simonides, Clarendon Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-814329-1. Diodorus Siculus...

they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her. On the other hand, in Alcman, nectar is the food, and in Sappho and Anaxandrides, ambrosia is the drink...

Pollux), were born on the island of Pefnos, adding that the Spartan poet Alcman also said this, while the poet Lycophron's use of the adjective "Pephnaian"...

University Press. pp. 1–52. ISBN 978-0-521-22804-6. Zaikov, A. V. (2004). "Alcman and the Image of Scythian Steed". In Tuplin, Christopher (ed.). Pontus and...

daughter of Cleoboea, or Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron. According to Alcman, Leda's parents were Glaucus and Laophonte while Eumelus attested that they...

worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα thalassomédousa), which, if...

Comparative table of Europa's family Relation Names Sources Alcman Hom. Sch. Iliad Hes. Hella. Bacchy. Sch. Eurip Mosc Con Diod. Apollod. Hyg. Pau. Non...

After this, the Erinyes struck the horse dumb. Based on fragments from Alcman and Stesichorus, an alternative story of the horses can be derived. The...

that is, the forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early...

In Greek mythology, according to Plutarch, the 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman said that Ersa /ˈɜːrsə/ or Herse /ˈhɜːrsiː/ (Ἔρσα, Érsa, Ἕρση, Hérsē, literally...

speculation that similar relationships existed between women and girls — the poet Alcman used the term aitis, as the feminine form of aites — which was the official...

written record, a fragment, exists attesting to her worship and an early Alcman hymn exists that identifies Thetis as the creator of the universe. Worship...

references to the Ripheans appear in the writings of the Greek choral poet Alcman (7th century BC) and the Athenian playwright Sophocles (5th century BC)...

possibly by the Greek nymph Thetis, presented as a demiurgical goddess in Alcman's poetry. Another root *yew(e)s- appears to be connected with ritualistic...

Antoninus Liberalis, 2 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses Apollodorus, 1.7.10 Alcman, fr. 15 as cited in Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.146...

JSTOR 23065371. Hesiod, Theogony 360; Homeric Hymn 2.420 Pindar, Olympian 12. Alcman frag 3. As on an Attic amphora, fifth century BC, Antikensammlung Berlin...

generation and irrigation. The earliest known name of the river is Εύρος (Euros, Alcman, 7th–6th century BC). Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérus and Ancient Greek εὐρύς...

Rhetorics Aeschylus – Tragedy Aesop – Fables Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry Alcman – Lyric Poetry Anacreon – Lyric Poetry Anaxagoras – Philosophy Anaximander...

hair represents her freedom from ritual pollution. Sappho's contemporary Alcman of Sparta praised golden hair as one of the most desirable qualities of...

Antiquitates Romanae 1.62.2 Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.250 as cited in Alcman, fr. 105: "[Son of Laomedon] : Priam’s mother as we are told by Porphyrius...

"exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods". The 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman makes Ersa ("Dew") the daughter of Selene and Zeus. Selene and Zeus were...

come from archaic Greek poetry, such as the partheneia ("maiden songs") of Alcman, a Lydian poet who lived and worked in Sparta in the seventh century BC...

Lesbos was also notable for monodic lyric poetry. The poetry written by Alcman was considered beautiful, even though he wrote exclusively in the Doric...

Enyalios in Iliad, book xx. A scholiast on Homer declares that the poet Alcman sometimes identified Ares with Enyalius and sometimes differentiated him...

describe Nyx as living at the ends of the Earth. The choral lyric poet Alcman (7th century BC), as recorded by a scholium on Sophocles, considered Nyx...

Caligo, 'Darkness'. Darkness probably did occur in a cosmogonic poem of Alcman, but it seems only fair to say that it was not prominent in Greek cosmogonies...

17 2003 April 3 (discovery and ephemeris) Keightley, p. 55; Hard, p. 46; Alcman, Fragment 57. Jennifer S. Blue, L Named Herse Archived 2013-05-12 at the...