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Alcman (/ˈælkmən/;
Ancient Gr****: Ἀλκμάν Alkmán; fl. 7th
century BC) was an
Ancient Gr****
choral lyric poet from Sparta. He is the
earliest representative...
- the
Lampades are
among the
types of
nymphs mentioned by the
lyric poet
Alcman (fl.
seventh century BC); the
scholiast describes them as the
nymphs "who...
- In Gr**** mythology,
according to Plutarch, the 7th
century BC Gr**** poet
Alcman said that Ersa /ˈɜːrsə/ or
Herse /ˈhɜːrsiː/ (Ἔρσα, Érsa, Ἕρση, Hérsē, literally...
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worshiped as a
goddess under her
epithet Leucothea, the "white goddess."
Alcman called her "Queen of the Sea" (θαλασσομέδουσα thal****omédousa), which, if...
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daughter of Cleoboea, or Laophonte,
daughter of Pleuron.
According to
Alcman, Leda's
parents were
Glaucus and
Laophonte while Eumelus attested that they...
- they were
inflamed with p****ion at the
sight of her. On the
other hand, in
Alcman,
nectar is the food, and in
Sappho and Anaxandrides,
ambrosia is the drink...
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Halieutica 3.485 ff Strabo, 8.3.14
Scholia minora on Homer's Iliad, 6.21 [=
Alcman, fr. 63 Campbell, pp. 438, 439 = fr. 63 PMG (Page, p. 53)]. Strabo, 10.3...
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Antoninus Liberalis, 2 as
cited in Nicander's
Metamorphoses Apollodorus, 1.7.10
Alcman, fr. 15 as
cited in
Scholiast on
Apollonius of Rhodes,
Argonautica 1.146...
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lyric poetry spanned about three hundred years,
starting with the poet,
Alcman, in the 7th
century BCE and
evolving to the
works of
Timotheos (or Timotheus...
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written record, a fragment,
exists attesting to her
worship and an
early Alcman hymn
exists that
identifies Thetis as the
creator of the universe. Worship...
