Alcaeus of Mytilene, lyric poet from the island of Lesbos

Alcaeus of Mytilene, c. - e625/620 - " c. - e580 BC, lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. From a Lesbian coin. Alcaeus. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor's Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as FavissE utriusque antiquitatis tam RomanE quam GrEcE in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716

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