Alcaeus

“Besides Sappho, her friend, perhaps lover, Alcaeus is almost the sole representative of the Aeolic school of poetry. He was a noble of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos. With other nobles he opposed and drove into exile the tyrant of this city.” — The Delphian Society, 1913

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kauthor, Greek, greece, sappho, alcaeus, aeolic, poetry, lesbos, mytilene

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The Delphian Society The World's Progress, Part III (Hammond, IN: W. B. Conkey Company, 1913)

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