Alcaios

Role: father of Belos · First appears: Book 1 · §1–8

Life events

• Alcaios fled a battle, and the Athenians captured his arms and hung them in Athene’s temple.(Book 5 · §95–103 · 📍 Sigeion)
  • “Alcaios the poet, taking to flight, escaped indeed himself, but the Athenians retained possession of his arms and hung them up on the walls of the temple of Athene which is at Sigeion.”

Book 1 · §1–8

• child: Belos “for Agron, the son of Ninos, the son of Belos, the son of Alcaios, was the first of the Heracleidai who became king of Sardis”
• with Candaules (interaction) “Candaules, whom the Hellenes call Myrsilos, was ruler of Sardis and a descendant of Alcaios, son of Heracles:”
• parent: Heracles “Candaules, whom the Hellenes call Myrsilos, was ruler of Sardis and a descendant of Alcaios, son of Heracles:”

Book 5 · §95–103

• friends with Melanippos “About this matter Alcaios composed a song and sent it to Mytilene, reporting therein his misadventure to one Melanippos, who was his friend.”

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