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ALCAEUS (Ar earos)

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ALCAEUS (Ar earos) , See also:Greek lyric poet, an older contemporary of See also:Sappho, was a native of Mytilene in See also:Lesbos and flourished about 600 B.C. His See also:life was greatly mixed up with the See also:political disputes and See also:internal feuds of his native See also:city. He belonged to one of the See also:noble families, and sided with his class against the " tyrants " who at that See also:time set themselves up in Mytilene. He was in consequence obliged to leave his native See also:country, and spent a considerable time in See also:exile. He is said to have become reconciled to See also:Pittacus, the ruler set up by the popular party, and to have returned to Lesbos. The date of his See also:death is unknown. The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic See also:dialect, were of various kinds: some were See also:hymns to the gods; others were of a See also:martial or political See also:character; others breathed an ardent love of See also:liberty and hatred of tyrants; lastly, some were love-songs. Alcaeus was allotted the second See also:place among the nine lyric poets in the Alexandrian See also:canon. The considerable number of fragments extant, and the well-known imitations of See also:Horace, who regarded Alcaeus as his See also:great See also:model, enable us to See also:form a See also:fair See also:idea of the character of his poems. A new fragment has' recently been discovered, together with some fragments of Sappho (Classical See also:Review, May 1902). See See also:Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882) ; also The Songs of Alcaeus,' by J. Easby-See also:Smith (See also:Washington, 1901); Plehn, Lesbiacorum See also:Liber (1826) ; See also:Flach, Gescbichte der griechischen Lyrik (1883–1884) ; Farriell, Greek Lyric Poets (1891).

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