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Alcaeus of Mytilene, lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, c.625 - c.580 BC. Gained fame with Sappho at the 45th Olympiad during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. From a Lesbian bronze coin. Alceo. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.

Alcaeus of Mytilene, lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, c.625 - c.580 BC. Gained fame with Sappho at the 45th Olympiad during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. From a Lesbian bronze coin. Alceo. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.
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Alcaeus of Mytilene, lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos, c.625 - c.580 BC. Gained fame with Sappho at the 45th Olympiad during the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. From a Lesbian bronze coin. Alceo. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.
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