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Alcaeus and exhorts
Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

Alcaeus and friends
Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.
Simonides composed verses almost entirely for public performances and inscriptions, unlike previous lyric poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed more intimate verses to entertain friends —" With Simonides the age of individualism in lyric poetry has passed.

Alcaeus and celebration
129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.
Alcaeus wrote verses in celebration of Antimenides ' return, including mention of his valour in slaying a Goliath-like opponent ( frag.

Alcaeus and death
The poets Alcaeus of Mytilene, Sappho, Anacreon, and Bacchylides wrote of love, war, and death in lyrics of great feeling and beauty.

Alcaeus and away
Archilochus was much imitated even up to Roman times and three other distinguished poets later claimed to have thrown away their shields — Alcaeus, Anacreon and Horace.

Alcaeus and their
* They wrote in their native dialects ( Alcaeus and Sappho in Aeolic dialect, Anacreon in Ionic );
* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.
That, at least, is the interpretation of later chronographers who also ignored Herodotus ' statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in their List of Kings of Lydia.
Heracles, in his anger, slew all the descendants of Minos except Alcaeus and Sthenelus, whom he took with him, and to whom he afterwards gave the island of Thasus as their home.

Alcaeus and life
Pindar, Sappho and Alcaeus are some of Horace's models ; his genius lay in applying these older forms to the social life of Rome in the age of Augustus.

Alcaeus and is
Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.
* Myrsilus-it is not known when he came to power but some verses by Alcaeus ( frag.
It is thought that Alcaeus travelled widely during his years in exile, including at least one visit to Egypt.
It is possible that Alcaeus wrote amorously about Sappho, as indicated in an earlier quote.
Ovid compared Alcaeus to Sappho in Letters of the Heroines, where Sappho is imagined to speak as follows:
The story of Alcaeus is partly the story of the scholars who rescued his work from oblivion.
Imitations of his work have been observed in Alcaeus, Epimenides, Mimnermus, Semonides, Tyrtaeus and Archilochus, from which it has been inferred that the latest possible date for him is about 650 BC.
A tendency to imitate other poets is not peculiar to Bacchylides, however – it was common in ancient poetry, as for example in a poem by Alcaeus ( fragment 347 ), which virtually quotes a passage from Hesiod ( Works and Days 582 – 8 ).
This fits, though in Herodotus the son of Heracles and the slave-girl of Iardanus is named Alcaeus.
Whether the Homeric Hymn antedates the Alcaeus fragment is unknown.
The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form spanning four lines ( more properly three, in the poetry of Sappho and Alcaeus, where there is no word-end before the final Adonean ).
It is not clear if she created it or if it was already part of the Aeolic tradition ; according to Marius Victorinus ( Ars grammatica 6. 161 Keil ), it was invented by Alcaeus but then used more frequently by, and so more strongly associated with, Sappho.
Aeolic Greek is most widely known for being the language of the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.
* Alcaeus: The great lyric poet of Mytilene, he is not mentioned by name but he is the author of some well-known verses that Philocleon adapts to a scolion directed against Cleon in lines 1232-35.
He is also a prolific translator, most notably of Ancient Greek lyric poetry ( Alcaeus, Alcman, Sappho etc .).
Aeolic is an exclusively poetic lyric dialect, represented by Sappho and Alcaeus for Aeolic ( Lesbian ) and Corinna of Tanagra for Boiotic.
The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.
The Alcaic stanza as used by Sappho and Alcaeus has the scheme ( where ¯ is a longum, ˘ a breve, and × an anceps ):
Its original source is in lines of " An Ode in Imitation of Alcaeus " ( published 1781 ), known also by its first line, " What constitutes a State?

Alcaeus and lines
The hymn to Hermes, fr308 ( b ), was quoted by Hephaestion ( grammarian ) and both he and Libanius, the rhetorician, quoted the first two lines of fr. 350, celebrating the return from Babylon of Alcaeus ' brother.

Alcaeus and .
Alcaeus and Sappho, Attica | Attic red-figure kalathos, ca.
Alcaeus " A probably authentic Lesbian coin has been preserved, bearing upon the obverse ... a profile head of Alcaeus, and upon the reverse ... a profile head of Pittacus.
Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success.
* Pittacus-the dominant political figure of his time, he was voted supreme power by the political assembly of Mytilene and appears to have governed well ( 590-580 BC ), even allowing Alcaeus and his faction to return home in peace.
Sometime before 600 BC, Mytilene fought Athens for control of Sigeion and Alcaeus was old enough to participate in the fighting.
Sappho and Alcaeus by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Alcaeus ' reference to Sappho in terms more typical of a divinity, as holy / pure, honey-smiling Sappho ( fr.
The poetic works of Alcaeus were collected into ten books, with elaborate commentaries, by the Alexandrian scholars Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace sometime in the 3rd century BC, and yet his verses today exist only in fragmentary form, varying in size from mere phrases, such as wine, window into a man ( fr. 333 ) to entire groups of verses and stanzas, such as those quoted below ( fr. 346 ).
Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead.
Even the private reflections of Alcaeus, ostensibly sung at dinner parties, still retain a public function.
The Roman poet, Horace, also compared the two, describing Alcaeus as " more full-throatedly singing "-see Horace's tribute below.
Alcaeus himself seems to underscore the difference between his own ' down-to-earth ' style and Sappho's more ' celestial ' qualities when he describes her almost as a goddess ( as cited above ), and yet it has been argued that both poets were concerned with a balance between the divine and the profane, each emphasising different elements in that balance.
The works of Alcaeus are conventionally grouped according to five genres.

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