Alcaeus may refer to:
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Alcaeus (bug)
Alcaeus may refer to:
* Alcaeus (bug), a genus of stink bugs or shield bugs
* Alcaeus (comic poet), a writer of ten plays of the Old Comedy
* Alcaeus (mythology), one of several figures of this name in Greek mythology
* 12607 Alcaeus, a main bel ...
, a genus of stink bugs or shield bugs
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Alcaeus (comic poet)
Alcaeus ( grc, ), the son of Miccus, was an Athenian comic poet.Suidas α 1274 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 in the same co ...
, a writer of ten plays of the Old Comedy
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Alcaeus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Alcaeus or Alkaios (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκαῖος derived from ''alke'' "strength") was the name of a number of different people:
*Alcaeus, was a Mycenaean prince. He was a son of Perseus and Andromeda and thus the brother ...
, one of several figures of this name in Greek mythology
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12607 Alcaeus
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...
, a main belt asteroid
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Alcaeus of Messene
Alcaeus of Messene (; Greek: ) was an ancient Greek poet, who flourished between 219 and 196 BC. Twenty-two of his short poems or epigrams survive in the Greek Anthology, from some of which his date may be fixed at around the late 3rd/early 2nd c ...
, a Greek epigrammatist of the late 3rd/early 2nd century BC
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Alcaeus of Mytilene
Alcaeus of Mytilene (; grc, Ἀλκαῖος ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, ''Alkaios ho Mutilēnaios''; – BC) was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical ...
, a lyric poet of the archaic period
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Alcaeus and Philiscus
Alcaeus and Philiscus (or Alcius and Philiscus; fl. 2nd century BC) were two Epicurean philosophers who were expelled from Rome in either 173 BC or 154 BC.
Athenaeus states that the expulsion occurred during the consulship of Lucius Postumius. Thi ...
(2nd-century BC), two Epicurean philosophers expelled from Rome in either 173 BC or 154 BC
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