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    Alcman (/ˈælkmən/; Greek: Ἀλκμάν Alkmán; fl.  7th century BC) was an Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the earliest representative of...
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  • The only surviving source which mentions the Lampades is a fragment of Alcman. Companions of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft and crossroads, they...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman, Loeb Classical Library No. 143, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University...
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    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...
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  • 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)...
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    daughter of Cleoboea, or Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron. According to Alcman, Leda's parents were Glaucus and Laophonte while Eumelus attested that they...
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    that is, the forgetfulness of pain and the cessation of obligations. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early...
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    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...
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    worshiped as a goddess under her epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess." Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα thalassomédousa), which, if...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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)...
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    line 86 Stesichorus, Fr.109 Cecil Maurice Bowra, Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides, Volume 1 "Hecuba", Washington State University Hyginus, Fabulae...
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  • 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...
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  • ACT 青森ケーブルテレビ. Retrieved 26 April 2024. Pausanias, 3.18.6 & 9.35.1 with Alcman as the authority for the names of the Charites Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Rhetorics Aeschylus – Tragedy Aesop – Fables Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry Alcman – Lyric Poetry Anacreon – Lyric Poetry Anaxagoras – Philosophy Anaximander...
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    hair represents her freedom from ritual pollution. Sappho's contemporary Alcman of Sparta praised golden hair as one of the most desirable qualities of...
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    "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...
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    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...
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    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"...
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    Lesbos was also notable for monodic lyric poetry. The poetry written by Alcman was considered beautiful, even though he wrote exclusively in the Doric...
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