Alcaic stanza, the Glossary
The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.[1]
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23 relations: Aeolic verse, Alcaeus, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anceps, August Kopisch, Caecuban wine, Capitoline Hill, Cleopatra, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Friedrich Hölderlin, Giosuè Carducci, Greek literature, Hendecasyllable, Horace, Johann Heinrich Voss, John Milton, Lyric poetry, Metre (poetry), Poet, Sapphic stanza, Sappho, Statius, Syllable weight.
Aeolic verse
Aeolic verse is a classification of Ancient Greek lyric poetry referring to the distinct verse forms characteristic of the two great poets of Archaic Lesbos, Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed in their native Aeolic dialect.
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Alcaeus
Alcaeus of Mytilene (Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios; – BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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Anceps
In languages with quantitative poetic metres, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, and classical Persian, an anceps (plural ancipitia or (syllabae) ancipites) is a position in a metrical pattern which can be filled by either a long or a short syllable.
August Kopisch
August Kopisch (26 May 1799 – 6 February 1853) was a German poet and painter.
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Caecuban wine
Caecuban wine (Latin: Caecubum, Greek: Kaikoubos) came from a small territory, ager Caecubus, at Amyclae in coastal Latium (in the region known today as the Plain of Fondi).
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Capitoline Hill
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio; Mons Capitolinus), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Κλεοπάτρα Θεά ΦιλοπάτωρThe name Cleopatra is pronounced, or sometimes in British English, see, the same as in American English.. Her name was pronounced in the Greek dialect of Egypt (see Koine Greek phonology);Also "Thea Neotera", lit.
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet.
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Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher.
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Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher.
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Greek literature
Greek literature dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today.
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Hendecasyllable
In poetry, a hendecasyllable (sometimes hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables.
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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.
Johann Heinrich Voss
Johann Heinrich Voss (Johann Heinrich Voß,; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
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Lyric poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
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Metre (poetry)
In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
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Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.
Sapphic stanza
The Sapphic stanza, named after Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines. Alcaic stanza and Sapphic stanza are Stanzaic form.
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Sappho
Sappho (Σαπφώ Sapphṓ; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.
Syllable weight
In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcaic_stanza
Also known as Alcaic, Alcaic verse, Alcaick, Alcaics, Alcaicum, Alcara verse, The Alcaic stanza.