#Alcaeus

• Alcaeus — A renowned Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, who lived during the 6th century BCE, included by Alexandrian scholars in the canonical list of nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. A contemporary and close associate of Sappho, Alcaeus created a vast body of work blending militant political themes, religious hymns, and drinking songs, and invented the alcaic stanza, a metrical structure that deeply influenced classical European lyric poetry.
• Alcaeus — The traditional Romanian form of the name of the Greek lyric poet Alcaeus from the island of Lesbos (6th century BCE), as well as other mythological figures, such as the son of Perseus and grandfather of Heracles. As a classical poet, Alceu is renowned for his militant poems and religious hymns, and invented the alcaic stanza later adopted in Latin lyric poetry by Horace.
• Alcaeus — The standard Latinized form of the name of the Greek poet Alceu (Alcaeus); it is also the name of a butterfly species in the Hesperiidae family (Carcharodus alceus), distributed across the Palearctic region. In an international literary and academic context, it is structurally used to refer directly to the alcaic metrical schemes discovered in Antiquity.