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{{short description|Ancient Greek poet}} ...omathy]]'', ii.</ref> refers to him as "Lesches of Mytilene". Mytilene and Lesbos are names of the same Greek island used interchangeably. ...

{{Short description|Group of ancient Greek poets}} ...Poets''' were a canonical group of [[ancient Greek poetry|ancient Greek]] poets esteemed by the scholars of [[Hellenistic]] [[Alexandria]] as worthy of cri ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek tribe}} ...f Mytilene|Alcaeus]] from Lesbos,{{Sfn|Wilson|2013|p=586}} and [[Corinna]] from Boeotia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aeolic dialect |url=https://www.britannica.c ...

...goras''' (name in Greek: '''Κριναγόρας ὁ Μυτιληναῖος''', 70 BC–18) was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[epigram]]matist and ambassador, who lived in Rome as a cou Crinagoras was born around 70 BC and was from [[Mytilene]] on the island of Lesbos. Inscriptions record that he was part of delegations to Rome in 48 or 47 BC ...

...1940 |title=Music in the Middle Ages: With an Introduction on the Music of Ancient Times |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=Lanham, Maryland |isb ...ref>xiii. p.&nbsp;618</ref> he increased the number of strings in the lyre from four to seven; others take the fragment of Terpander on which Strabo bases ...

{{for|the town of ancient Lesbos|Agamede (Lesbos)}} '''Agamede''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|ɡ|ə|ˈ|m|iː|d|i}} ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ἀγαμήδη, meaning "very cunning"<ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Robert Grav ...

{{For|professional authors of judicial speeches in ancient Greece|Logographer (legal)}} ...is predecessors {{lang|grc|λογοποιοί}} ({{Transliteration|grc|logopoioí}}, from {{lang|grc|ποιέω}} {{Transliteration|grc|poiéō}}, "to make"). ...

..., ''Hellánikos ho Mutilēnaîos''; {{circa}} 490 – {{circa}} 405 BC), was an ancient [[Greece|Greek]] [[logographer (history)|logographer]] who flourished durin ...who includes a biography of Hellanicus.<ref>José J. Caerols, ''Helanico de Lesbos'' (1991).</ref>[[File:POxy1084 Hellanicus Atlantis.png|thumb|right|upright= ...

...and these display a wide range of emotions (see [[Catullus 85]]), ranging from tender love (e. g. [[Catullus 5]], Catullus 7), to sadness and disappointme The name evokes the poet [[Sappho]], who was from the isle of [[Lesbos]]. Catullus's poem 35 celebrating his poet friend Caecilius of Novum Comum ...

...Φανίας)) was a [[Greek philosophy|Greek]] philosopher from [[Lesbos Island|Lesbos]], important as an immediate follower of and commentator on [[Aristotle]]. Phaenias was born in [[Eresos]] in [[Lesbos]]. He was the friend and fellow-citizen of [[Theophrastus]], a letter of wh ...

...ave influenced [[Theocritus]], and her works were adapted by several later poets, including [[Ovid]]. ...the ''[[Greek Anthology]]'', claimed that Anyte was from [[Mytilene]] on [[Lesbos]].{{sfn|Plant|2004|p=56}} Anyte's use of a [[Doric Greek|Doric dialect]], a ...

...her home island respectively. Whilst her importance as a poet is confirmed from the earliest times, all interpretations of her work have been coloured and ''Philogyny'' comes from ''philo-'' (loving) and Greek ''gynē'' (woman). The parallel [[Greek langua ...

...nd testament|will]], Aristotle ordered that he be buried next to his wife. From his wording, it is known that Pythias was already dead by the time he wrote ...ythias was both Hermias' adopted daughter and sister. Citing the text ''On Poets and Writers of the Same Name'' by the scholar [[Demetrius of Magnesia]] (1s ...

...ley]], ''The World Of Odysseus'', rev, ed, 1976:39.</ref> claiming descent from the Greek epic poet [[Homer]]. ...ounder, is a mythical figure, a mere [[back-formation]], deriving his name from that of the later guild. ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek female poet}} [[File:Erinna.png|thumb|Fanciful portrait of Erinna from Finden's ''Gallery of Graces'' (1834)]] ...

...gure, thought to be a portrait of Praxilla of Sikyon (a Greek lyric poet), from the portico of the Triclinium of the Three Exedras at Hadrian's Villa, 117 ...fact composed by two different authors, or that the drinking songs derive from a non-elite literary tradition rather than being authored by a single write ...

...[[Paris (mythology)|Paris]] and [[Eros (mythology)|Eros]] &ndash; a detail from a [[sarcophagus]] with the ''[[Judgement of Paris]]'', Roman, [[Hadrian]]ic ...Troy]], whom he abandoned for [[Helen of Troy|Helen]]. Oenone was also the ancient name of an island, which was later named after [[Aegina (mythology)|Aegina] ...

{{Short description|Ancient Italic tribes in Italy}} The usage, by ancient writers, in regard to national appellations is very vague and fluctuating, ...

...ratic]] governing [[Social class|class]] of [[Mytilene]], the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds. ...r class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the ...

{{Short description|Legendary musician of ancient Greece}} ...eir native son, but Arion found a patron in [[Periander]], [[tyrant]] of [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]]. Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is ch ...