#alcaic

• 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.
• Alcaic — Pertaining to or characteristic of the Greek poet Alcaeus or the metrical structure invented by him. In ancient and classical prosody, the term describes a type of verse or a stanza composed of a specific combination of long and short syllables (a special hendecasyllable), later successfully adopted by Latin poets, most notably by Horace in his Odes.
• 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.