Alcaeus

Reading notes

• The Odes §1.32 citizen of Lesbos

  Alcaeus, the warrior-poet of Lesbos who first tuned the lyre Horace now plays in Latin.

• The Odes §2.13 Alcaeus

  The Lesbian poet, sounding in the underworld 'more fully' of the ship, of flight, and of war.

• The Odes §4.9 Alcaeus

  Whose 'menacing' strains endure — Horace's chief Greek model.

• The Epistles §1.19 Alcaeus

  The archaic poet of Lesbos whose Aeolic lyric meters and themes Horace claims as his model.