Megalostrata (poet)
Megalostrata was a female Spartan poet known only from a fragment of the lyric poet Alcman, which is cited in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae.[1] Alcman describes her as a "golden-haired maiden enjoying the gift of the Muses".[2] None of her works survive.[3] According to Athenaeus, Megalostrata was the lover of Alcman, who loved her because of her conversational skills.[2] However, the love between Megalostrata and Alcman was probably an invention of Archytas or Chamaeleon, Athenaeus' sources for his anecdote about Megalostrata.[4]
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- S2CID 162071584.
- ^ ISBN 9780195130676.
- ISBN 9780195130676.
- S2CID 162071584.
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