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Alcaeus
Greek lyric poet
This article is about the lyric poet.
For other uses, see Alcaeus (disambiguation).
Alcaeus of Mytilene (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios; c. 625/620 – c. 580 BC)[1][2] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza.
He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of HellenisticAlexandria.
Once shared emotions are evoked, and the past returns in the form Sappho and Alcaeus give to it, establishing collective remem- brances, i.e.He was a contemporary of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems. He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.
Biography
The broad outlines of the poet's life are well known.[4][5][6] He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Ae