Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Alcaeus
Alcaeus. A lyric poet of Mitylene, native of the Isle of Lesbos, and celebrated by the invention of Alcaic verse. He lived 608 years before Jesus Christ. Athenaeus calls him musices scientissimus.
Alcaeus. A lyric poet of Mitylene, native of the Isle of Lesbos, and celebrated by the invention of Alcaic verse. He lived 608 years before Jesus Christ. Athenaeus calls him musices scientissimus.