. gods and odes, the latterbeing divided into political (tTTiunwTiKa), scoliaand erotica; all, however, practically of the classof scolia or drinking songs, and greatly inferiorpoetry to that of his younger contemporarySappho. Among the few fragments remainingare the originals of Horaces odes Vides utalta, O navis referent, and Nunc est biben-dum, which last is a rejoicing over the deathof Myrsilus. He has given his name to theAlcaic metre, and seems also to have been theearliest writer of Sapphics.—Editions. Bergk,in Poetae Lyrici,
. gods and odes, the latterbeing divided into political (tTTiunwTiKa), scoliaand erotica; all, however, practically of the classof scolia or drinking songs, and greatly inferiorpoetry to that of his younger contemporarySappho. Among the few fragments remainingare the originals of Horaces odes Vides utalta, O navis referent, and Nunc est biben-dum, which last is a rejoicing over the deathof Myrsilus. He has given his name to theAlcaic metre, and seems also to have been theearliest writer of Sapphics.—Editions. Bergk,in Poetae Lyrici, 1H67; Hartung, 1855.—2. Acomic poet at Athens belonging to the transi-tion between Old and New Comedy, about —3. Of Messene, author of epigrums inAnth. Pal, about 200. Alcamenes (AA/cojucVtjj). 1. Son of Tele-clus, king of Sparta, from 779 to 742.— sculptor of Athens, flourished from to 400 ond was the most famous of thepupils of Phidias. His greatest works were astatue of Aphrodite (Plin. xxxvi. 16; Lucian, ALCIBIADES 43. Alcaeus.(From a coin ol Mytilene.) Imag. 4), and a Dionysus. Vfe are told also byPausanias that the west pediment in the templeof Zeus at Olympia was his work. It is thoughtthat this belongs to an early period of his art,before he came under the influence of Phidias.[Cf. Agoracritus.] Alcander \A\Kav8pos), a young Spartan, whothrust out one of the eyes of Lycurgus, whenhis fellow-citizens were discontented with thelaws he proposed. Lycurgus pardoned the out-rage, and thus converted Alcander into one ofhis warmest friends. (Plut. Lyc. 11; Ael. 23.) Alcathoe or Alcithoe (A\Ka66-n or AA/a9<S?)),daughter of Minyas, refused with her sistersLeucippe and Arsippe to join in the worship ofDionysus when it was introduced into Boeotia,and were accordingly changed by the god intobats, and their weaving-loom into vines ( iv. 1-40, 390-415). A somewhat differentlegend existed, apparently an attempt to explaina human
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