Megalostrata (poet)

For other uses, see Megalostrata (disambiguation).

Megalostrata (Ancient Greek: Μεγαλοστράτα) 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]

See also

• Cleitagora

Citations

1. Nikolaev, Alexander (2012). "Showing Praise in Greek Choral Lyric and Beyond". American Journal of Philology. 133 (4): 544. doi:10.1353/ajp.2012.0032. S2CID 162071584.
2. Pomeroy, Sarah B. (2002). Spartan women. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780195130676.
3. Pomeroy, Sarah B. (2002). Spartan women. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780195130676.
4. Nikolaev, Alexander (2012). "Showing Praise in Greek Choral Lyric and Beyond". American Journal of Philology. 133 (4): 545. doi:10.1353/ajp.2012.0032. S2CID 162071584.