ALCAEUS (Ar earos)

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ALCAEUS (Ar earos) , 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. He belonged to one of the noble families, and sided with his class against the " tyrants " who at that time set themselves up in Mytilene. He was in consequence obliged to leave his native country, and spent a considerable time in

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

. He is said to have become reconciled to Pittacus, the ruler set up by the popular party, and to have returned to Lesbos. The date of his death is unknown. The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic dialect, were of various kinds: some were hymns to the gods; others were of a martial or political character; others breathed an ardent love of liberty and hatred of tyrants; lastly, some were love-songs. 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

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

, who regarded Alcaeus as his

great

GREAT

model, enable us to form a

fair

FAIR

idea of the character of his poems. A new fragment has' recently been discovered, together with some fragments of Sappho (Classical Review, May 1902).
See Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882) ; also The Songs of Alcaeus,' by J. Easby-

Smith

(Washington, 1901); Plehn, Lesbiacorum Liber (1826) ; Flach, Gescbichte der griechischen Lyrik (18831884) ; Farriell, Greek Lyric Poets (1891).

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