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	Alcaeus
		Alcaeus sided with the rebels and his (probably much older) brothers joined with Pittacus in a coup d'état which toppled the aristocratic Melanchros from power.
		Herodotus claims that Alcaeus ran away from the battle of Sigeion and the allegations of cowardice are angrily answered in some of Alcaeus' verses.
		Alcaeus' experience in war and politics are reflected in his extant poetry, much of it military in nature.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Alcaeus.html (913 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1337 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Alcaeus the poet in exile and opposed to the government of Pittacus.
		Pherecydes of Syros, the philosopher, and Theognis of Megara, the poet, flourished.
		The philosopher Pythagoras and the poet Anacreon flourished.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3671.html (455 words)

	Alcaeus (poet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alcaeus sided with the rebels and his (probably much older) brothers joined with Pittacus in a coup d'état which toppled the aristocratic Melanchros from power.
		Herodotus claims that Alcaeus ran away from the battle of Sigeion, and the allegations of cowardice are angrily answered in some of Alcaeus' verses.
		Alexandrian scholars agreed that Alcaeus was the second greatest monodic lyric poet among the canonic nine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alcaeus_(poet) (773 words)

	Alcaeus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		ALCAEUS (ALKAios), Greek lyric poet, an older contemporary of Sappho, was a native of Mytilene in Lesbos and flourished about 600 B.C. His life was greatly mixed up with the political disputes and internal feuds of his native city.
		Alcaeus was allotted the second place among the nine lyric poets in the Alexandrian canon.
		The considerable number of fragments extant, and the well-known imitations of Horace, who regarded Alcaeus as his great model, enable us to form a fair idea of the character of his poems.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alcaeus (253 words)

	Alcaeus (poet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Alcaeus (Alkaios) (ca 620 BCE - 6th century BCE) Greek lyric poet was an older contemporary of Sappho with whom he exchanged poems.
		Alexandrian scholars agreed that Alcaeus was second greatest lyric poet among the canonic nine.
		Suppe's Light Calvary and Poet and Peasant Overtures were absolutely grand, as were Daniel-Francois Auber's Fra Diavolo, Herold's Zampa, Reznicek's Donna Diana, Offenbachs Orpheus in the Underworld, and the magnificent William Tell Overture by Rossini.
	www.freeglossary.com /Alcaeus_(poet) (554 words)

	Alcaeus Criticism and Essays
		An acclaimed performer, Alcaeus, who sang his poetry to the accompaniment of a lyre, is also credited with creating a particular type of four-line stanza that bears his name—the Alcaic strophe.
		A well-known poet in his time, Alcaeus was active in the wars and political struggles of Mytilene, his birthplace, throughout his life.
		Alcaeus joined Pittacus in battle against the Athenians and once had to ignobly abandon his shield in hasty retreat or be slaughtered.
	www.enotes.com /classical-medieval-criticism/alcaeus (726 words)

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		Better as a poet than as a political analyst, Alcaeus was a spokesman for the old-fashioned aristocratic supremacy, which in his day was being dismantled throughout the Greek world.
		Alcaeus may have gone home—but only for a brief time—because soon his former comrade Pittacus was ruling singly in Mytilene, and Alcaeus and many other nobles were expelled.
		In his poetry Alcaeus raved against Pittacus as a "low-born" traitor and expressed despair at being excluded from the political life that was his birthright.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0031 (414 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 96 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The metres of Alcaeus were generally lively, and his poems seem to have been constructed in short single strophes, in all of which the corresponding lines were of the same metre, as in the odes of Horace.
		poets of Greece (1557), of which there are several ditions, and by Fulvius Ursinus, 1568, 8vo.
		He is found exhibiting at Athens as a poet of the old comedy, or rather of that mixed comedy, which formed the transition between the old and the middle.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0105.html (1023 words)

	www.com - Alcaeus (poet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For some time, Alcaeus was allied to Pittacus, even fiցhtinց alonցside him in a battle aցainst the Athenians at Siցeion near Troy where Pittacus defeated the Athenian commander, Phrynon in sinցle combat.
		Herodotus claims that Alcaeus ran away from the battle of Siցeion and the alleցations of cowardice are anցrily answered in some of Alcaeus' verses.
		Alexandrian scholars aցreed that Alcaeus was the second ցreatest lyric poet amonց the Nine lyric poets.
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	Alcaeus
		In Greek mythology, Alcaeus was one of the Perseidae, a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
		Alcaeus (ALKAIOS), Greek lyric poet, an older contemporary of Sappho, was a native of Mytilene in Lesbos and flourished about 600 b.c.
		His life was greatly mixed up with the political disputes and internal feuds of his native city.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alcaeus.html (278 words)

	Alcaeus
		Alcaeus (Mytilene, Lesbos, 620 b.C. b.C.) Greek lyric poet who wrote hymns, love songs, and political odes.
		A collection of Alcaeus' surviving poems in 10 books (only some 150 fragments survived until now) was made in the 2nd century b.C., and he was a favourite model of the Roman lyric poet Horace, who adapted from him his own alcaic stanza.
		Many of the fragments reflect the vigour of the poet's involvement in the life of Mytilene, particularly its political life.
	www.italycyberguide.com /History/factspersons/alcaeus.htm (197 words)

	Alcaeus - {{ᏏᏖᎾᎺ}} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Alcaeus ᎠᎾᏍᎬᏘ ᏩᏎᏍᏗ ᎯᎸᏍᎩ ᎯᎸᎯᏳᎢ ᎠᎪᎢ ᏗᏎᏍᏗ, ᏂᎬᎢ:
		Alcaeus (ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ), ᎯᎠ ᎤᏪᏥ Perseus ᎠᎴ ᎯᎠ ᎠᏓᏙᏓ ᎤᎾᎵᎢ
		Alcaeus (ᏗᎪᏪᎵᏍᎩ ᏗᎧᏃᎮᎸᏍᎩ), ᏗᎧᏃᎩᏛ ᏗᎪᏪᎵᏍᎩ ᏗᎧᏃᎮᎸᏍᎩ ᎯᎠ lyudetiyvda ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗ
	www.merkeylaw.com /wiki/Alcaeus (81 words)

	Pittacus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		About 611, with the assistance of the brothers of the poet Alcaeus, he overthrew Melanchrus, tyrant of Lesbos.
		In a war (606) between the Mytilenaeans and Athenians for the possession of Sigeum on the Hellespont he slew the Athenian commander Phrynon in single combat.
		In 589 his fellow citizens entrusted Pittacus with despotic power (with the title of Aesymnetes) for the purpose of protecting them against the exiled nobles, at the head of whom were Alcaeus and his brother Antimenides.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pittacus (165 words)

	Sappho Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In antiquity Sappho was regularly counted among the greatest of poets and was often referred to as "the Poetess," just as Homer was called "the Poet." Plato hailed her as "the tenth Muse," and she was honored on coins and with civic statuary.
		That list alone may suggest something of the nature of Sappho's influence on the Romantic idea of the poet as a creature of feeling, one whose solitary song is overheard, as opposed to the classical model of the poet as a socially defined craftsperson who speaks to a group.
		She remains an extraordinary poet of the Eros that animates every human being, and her works speak to both heterosexual and homosexual readers, to men as well as to women.
	www.otterbein.edu /home/fac/DNLSLNGF/IS270wi03SapphoSources.htm (2307 words)

	Greek Poets - Crystalinks
		The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic Greek dialect, were of various kinds: hymns to the gods; martial or political comment, sometimes quite personal; and lastly love-songs and drinking-songs, the kind of poetry that would be read aloud at a symposium.
		His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the Alexandrian tragic Pleiad; we only know the title of one play (Astragalistae.) He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence.
		Like his fellow-lyric poet, Horace, who was one of his great admirers, and in many respects a kindred spirit, Anacreon seems to have been made for the society of courts.
	www.crystalinks.com /greekpoets.html (2087 words)

	cciv243.Alcaeus.html
		Alcaeus was a native of Mytilene, the most important city on the island of Lesbos.
		It is likely that most if not all of Alcaeus' poems were composed for performance amid a circle of friends and associates.
		Ruler of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the early sixth century B.C. and a target of vituperative attack in the extant fragments of the poet Alcaeus.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /Images2/cciv243.Alcaeus.html (1886 words)

	Some Notable Sappho Graphics
		this one shows her with alcaeus, another poet who composed in the aeolic dialect.
		here he shows the poet alcaeus plucking the strings of the lyre as one of the maidens of his chorus sings.
		moreau returned to this theme again in 1871 to paint the poet once she has died.
	omni.cc.purdue.edu /~corax/sapphoimages.html (657 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY
		Sidelight: By the 14th century, rhyme and meter displaced alliteration as a formal element, although alliterative verse continued to be written into the 16th century and alliteration retains an important function as one of a poet's sound devices.
		Sidelight: Poets often adapt diction to the form or genre of a poem, for example, elevated for odes, or folksy for ballads.
		Sidelight: Although as ancient as Anglo-Saxon verse, free verse was first employed "officially" by French poets of the Symbolist movement and became the prevailing poetic form at the climax of Romanticism.
	www.poeticbyway.com /glossary2.html (10595 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alcaeus
		Alcaeus, c.620-c.580 BC, Greek lyric poet of Lesbos.
		A moderate democrat, Pittacus prevented the nobles in exile (among them Alcaeus) from returning.
		Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song, or elegy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Alcaeus (451 words)

	Diotima
		Poets could, however, occasionally play the stress accent off against the quantitative rhythm for certain local rhetorical effects.
		In Alcaeus, the first syllable of the first three lines of the Alcaic stanza may be short.
		In Sappho and Alcaeus, the fourth syllable of the first three lines of the Sapphic stanza may be short.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/anthology/horawillmet.shtml (1699 words)

	Transmission of Archaic Greek Sympotic Songs: from Lesbos to Alexandria
		Moreover, given the traditional date assigned to the time when Alcaeus flourished, around 600 BCE, Rösler argues that the songs of this poet must have been the product of an era so early that the technology of writing was not yet generally used for either the composition or even the recording of songs.
		If indeed Alcaeus is primarily a sympotic figure, as conveyed in the varieties of ethos that are being acted out in the songs attributed to him, then it is all the more natural for any sympotic performer of Alcaeus to have a relatively strong sense of identification with him in performance.
		Examples: in Alcaeus F 129, Alcaeus puts a curse on Pittakos; in F 130, he speaks from exile; in F 141, he predicts that the city will soon be overthrown.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/current/31n1.nagy.htm (8778 words)

	Wikinfo \| Alcaeus
		In Greek mythology, Alcaeus, or Alkaios was one of the Perseidae, a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
		Alcaeus was allotted the second place among the
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Alcaeus (307 words)

	Sappho and Her Influence - By C. Ravin, Esq. - Summer/Autumn 2002 - Lovestarz.com
		Aeschylus is the greatest poet who ever was also a prophet; Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist who ever was also a poet, but Sappho is simply nothing less — as she is certainly nothing more - than the greatest poet who ever was at all.
		In this the Lesbian poets were not unlike the Provençal troubadours, who made a literature of love, or the Venetian painters, who based their art upon the beauty of color, the voluptuous charms of the flesh.
		The young poet is singing to the priestess of the Muses a new song with a new rhythm, and as she hears it, she feels that there is a strain of balanced strength in it she has not reached: it is the first revelation to her of the rhythm that masters her own.
	lovestarz.com /dmr.html (10726 words)

	Your Alcaeus (poet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For some tіme; Alcaeus was allіeɗ to Pіttacus; eveռ ƒіɡhtіռɡ aloռɡsіɗe hіm іռ a Ƅattle aɡaіռst the Atheռіaռs at Sіɡeіoռ ռear Troу where Pіttacus ɗeƒeateɗ the Atheռіaռ commaռɗer; Phrуռoռ іռ sіռɡle comƄat
		Stіll; Alcaeus' lіvelу verses eχtolleɗ revelrу; ɡamƄlіռɡ; ƒrіeռɗshіp; aռɗ the rouɡh lіƒe at sea
		Aleχaռɗrіaռ scholars aɡreeɗ that Alcaeus was the secoռɗ ɡreatest lуrіc poet amoռɡ the Nіռe lуrіc poets
	zalien.info /996 (671 words)

	Harvard University Press: Greek Lyric, I, Sappho and Alcaeus by David A. Campbell
		This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main theme was love; and Alcaeus, poet of wine, war, and politics, and composer of short hymns to the gods.
		Later writers quoted from the poets, but only so much as suited their needs; these quotations are supplemented by papyrus texts found in Egypt, most of them badly damaged.
		Bacchylides and other fifth-century poets are in Volume IV along with Corinna (although some argue that she belongs to the third century).
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/L142.html (305 words)

	Sappho
		Sappho is the most famous female poet of antiquity, but only incomplete poems and fragments remain of her work.
		A man sits facing the woman, listening her "sweet speech and lovely laughter." Sappho was unsentimental about the feeling of love: cold sweat pours off the poet, trembling shakes her body, she is paler than grass.
		Is addressed to the goddess to aid her seduction of a young girl whom the poet loves.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /sappho.htm (1444 words)

	The Inspiration: "And Sovereign Law ..." (Library of Congress)
		Sir William Jones (1746-1794), a renowned linguist and jurist on the Supreme Court in India, was a prolific writer and translator of prose and poetry from Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit texts.
		Known as the "Father of Modern Linguistics," Sir William Jones was largely responsible for the introduction of Asian literature, philosophy and culture to the West in the 18th century and his translations had enormous influence on the Romantic writers and poets in the early 19th century, among them the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley.
		In 1644, John Milton (1608-1674), the poet and future author of Paradise Lost, wrote the Areopagitica, a pamphlet in the form of an address to Parliament, as a plea to its members to rescind this censorship.
	www.loc.gov /law/public/asl/htdoc/asl002.html (732 words)

	Nine lyric poets - Phantis
		The nine lyric poets (nine melic poets) were a canon of archaic Greek composers esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study.
		Thus some types of poetry which would be included under the label "lyric" in modern literary criticism are nevertheless excluded, namely the elegy and the iambus.
		The poetry of these poets are traditionally divided into choral lyric and monodic lyric.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Nine_lyric_poets (143 words)

	Alcaeus (poet) Biography and Summary
		Alcaeus is the premier poet of politics and the symposium, or drinking party.
		Like Sappho, he wrote poems intended to be sung by one person to the accompaniment of a lyre (see Horace, Odes 2.13, 4.9); and the surviving representations of him, like those...
		In the following essay, Walker considers the performance contexts of Alcaeus and Sappho's poetry, particularly the question of whether or not their audiences consisted chiefly of like-minded friends.
	www.bookrags.com /Alcaeus_(poet) (183 words)

	Writer Info
		Aric Allen is a poet raised in the suburbs of NYC and DC.
		She lives in Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy, and is the curator of the Poet's Corner.
		Heidi Sulzdorf is a poet who lives in the great and eccentric state of Montana (known for such great things as: the first female representative to Congress, the Unabomber, copper mining, and the Freemen).
	www.moriapoetry.com /writer.htm (13008 words)

	The Divine Sappho
		Poet and classicist Sarah Ruden has kindly permitted her reading of fr.
		Extracts from J.A. Symonds' The Greek Poets on Lesbos and Sappho's beauty, with comparisons to Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Ibycus.
		Paula Saffire sings Songs of Sappho The noted author and lecturer sings in English and Greek, at Butler U. · NPR's Book club of the air: Sappho, includes a visit by Mary Barnard, readings of Sappho's fragments, and talk of Sappho and her poetry.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/sappho (917 words)

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