Alcaeus | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Lesky, Albin. “The Archaic Period.” In A History of Greek Literature, pp. 91-240. Edinburgh, Great Britain: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1966.
Discussion of what is known about Alcaeus's life.
CRITICISM
Bowie, A. M. “The Language of the Poems.” In The Poetic Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus, pp. 47-67. New York: Arno Press Inc, 1981.
Examines Alcaeus's and Sappho's poetry for influences of the Ionic dialect, the epic, and native Lesbian tradition.
Gomme, A. W. “Interpretations of Some Poems of Alkaios and Sappho.” Journal of Hellenistic Studies 77 (1957): 255-66.
Offers varied interpretations from the analyses of Lobel and Page.
Hutchinson, G. O. “Alcaeus.” In Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces, pp. 187-227. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Brief introduction to Alcaeus, as well as...
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