" It contained poems by the compiler himself and forty-six other poets, including Archilochus, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Simonides.

* Ibycus, Anacreon and Alcaeus: 6th Century lyrical poets, mentioned favourably by Agathon as examples of poets who dressed and behaved as effetely as himself.

On Alcaeus (), and Summaries of the plots of Euripides and Sophocles (), but may have been the works of Dicaearchus, a grammarian of Lacedaemon, who, according to the Suda, was a disciple of Aristarchus, and seems to be alluded to in Apollonius.

* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, 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 actively involved ;

The poems of Alcaeus and later Pindar record similar romantic bonds between the members of a given circle.

Horace, whose career crossed the divide between republic and empire, followed Catullus ' lead in employing Greek lyrical forms, identifying with Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Alcaic stanzas, and also with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus tradition ( in which he adopted the metrical form of the Epode or ' Iambic Distich ').

The poems of Alcaeus and later Pindar record similar romantic bonds between the members of a given circle.

The Roman poet Horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of Alcaeus, rendering the Lesbian poet's verse-forms, including ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, into concise Latin-an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes.

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

Unlike the works of her fellow poet, Alcaeus, Sappho's surviving poetry has very few allusions to political conditions.

Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her thus: " Violet-haired, pure, honey-smiling Sappho " (, fr.

Sappho's contemporary and countryman, Alcaeus of Mytilene, also used the Sapphic stanza.

Alcaeus ' reference to Sappho in terms more typical of a divinity, as holy / pure, honey-smiling Sappho ( fr.

The Roman poet, Horace, also compared the two, describing Alcaeus as " more full-throatedly singing "-see Horace's tribute below.

:: And you, Alcaeus, more full-throatedly

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.

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.

* Myrsilus-it is not known when he came to power but some verses by Alcaeus ( frag.

This painting completed in 1881, depicts Sappho and her companions listening as the poet Alcaeus plays a " kithara ", on the island of Lesbos ( Mytilene ).

In his second book, in an ode composed in Alcaic stanzas on the subject of an almost fatal accident he had on his farm, he imagines meeting Alcaeus and Sappho in Hades:

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

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.

* Love songs: Almost all Alcaeus ' amorous verses, mentioned with disapproval by Quintilian above, have vanished without trace.

* Alcaeus, the original name of Heracles ( according to Diodorus Siculus ), which was given to him on account of his descent from Alcaeus, the son of Perseus mentioned above.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

* 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.

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.

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.

Alcmene was born to Electryon ( or Alcaeus, Perseus and Andromeda's son ), the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and king of Tiryns and Mycenae or Medea in Argolis.

Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).

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 ).

* Alcaeus ( 3rd century BC ), author of epigrams

Pelops and Hippodameia also had several daughters, some of whom married into the House of Perseus, such as Astydameia ( who married Alcaeus ), Nicippe ( who married Sthenelus ), and Eurydice ( who married Electryon ).

Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

Aeolic poetry, the most famous example of which being the works of Sappho, mostly uses four classical meters known as the Aeolics, which are: Glyconic ( the most basic form of Aeolic line ), hendecasyllabic verse, Sapphic stanza and Alcaic stanza ( the latter two so named after Sappho and Alcaeus respectively ).

* Alcaeus ( comic poet ), a writer of ten plays of the Old Comedy.

* Alcaeus ( mythology ), one of several figures of this name in Greek mythology

* Alcaeus and Philiscus ( 2nd-century BC ), two Epicurean philosophers expelled from Rome in either 173 BC or 154 BC.

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?

On the island of Lesbos ( Mytilene ), in the late 7th century BC, Sappho listens as the poet Alcaeus plays a " kithara.