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Alcaeus of Mytilene
Alcaeus
also: Alkaïos
Archaic Greek lyric poet of Mytilene (c. 625–580 BC), a contemporary of Sappho with whom legend paired him. Rilke's fragment has Sappho refuse him.
Reading notes
- New Poems §6 suitor
Alcaeus of Mytilene, the poet whom legend paired with Sappho; here she refuses him, keeping her lyre and her girls.
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