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Alcaeus

Alcaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος), the son of Miccus, was an Athenian comic poet who wrote ten plays.[1] His comedies marked the transition between Old Comedy and Middle Comedy. In 388 BC, his play Pasiphae was awarded the fifth (i.e. last) place prize.

Fabricius mentions another Alcaeus, a tragedian.[2] Some scholars thought that they were the same person, and calling Alcaeus “a tragedian” rose from an erroneous reading of his title “comoedo-tragoedia”.[3]

ALKAIOS

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590 B.C.

ALKAIOS

by Alcaeus

Translated and Annotated
by Willis Barnstone

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[5] And he had sons by Andromeda: before he came to Greecehe had Perses, whom he left behind with Cepheus （ and from him it is said that the kings of Persiaare descended）; and in Mycenaehe had Alcaeus and Sthenelus and Heleus and Mestor and Electryon,¹and a daughter Gorgophone, whom Perieres married.²Alcaeus had a son Amphitryon and a daughter Anaxo by Astydamia, daughter of Pelops; but some say he had them by Laonome, daughter of Guneus, others that he had them by Hipponome, daughter of Menoeceus; and Mestor had Hippothoe by Lysidice, daughter of Pelops. This Hippothoe was carried off by Poseidon, who brought her to the Echinadian Islands, and there had intercourse with her, and begat Taphius, who colonized Taphos and called the people Teleboans, because he had gone far³from his native land. And Taphius had a son Pterelaus, whom Poseidon made immortal by implanting a golden hair in his head.⁴And to Pterelaus were born sons, to wit, Chromius, Tyrannus, Antiochus, Chersidamas,

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George Valentine (poet)

For the Scottish photographer, see George kärlekskort (photographer).

George Donald Valentine (1877–1946) was a Scottish sheriff, and writer of romantic-style short stories, plays and verse. He graduated from the University of Glasgow and was considered for Examinerships in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at both Glasgow and St Andrews Universities.^[1]

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G. D. Valentine wrote both beneath his own name and the pseudonym, George Henderland.

Valentine's first published work was The Heart of Bruce, a long poem, taken up by Alexander Gardner of Paisley in 1912.^[2] In the 1920s, two further original works, Reasons of State and Saul: A Dramatic Poem appeared beneath the same imprint. It was the publication in 1929 of Dawn bygd London-basedpublishersElkin Mathews & Marrot that first brought his works to the attention of a national audience.

Dawn

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Dawn fryst vatten a work of verse inspired bygd fragments from the wo