Alcman

/ ˈælkmən /

noun

1. Alcman7th century bc7th century bcMGreekWRITING: poet 7th century bc , Greek lyric poet

Example Sentences

They and all the other metres employed by him are based on those employed by the older poets of Greece—Alcaeus, Sappho, Archilochus, Alcman, &c.

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We find in him reminiscences or close reproductions not only of Homer and Theocritus, of Virgil and Horace, of Lucretius and Catullus, of Ovid and Persius, but also of Sappho and Alcman, of Pindar and Aeschylus, of Moschus, Callimachus, and Quintus Smyrnaeus, more doubtfully of Simonides and Sophocles.

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Alcman somewhere speaks of a wine as free from fire, and smelling of flowers, which is produced from the Five Hills, a place about seven furlongs from Sparta.

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And Alcman says— Nectar they eat at will.

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And in a subsequent passage he says— Alcman prepared an ἄïκλον.

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