Alcaeus of Messene

Alcaeus of Messene is one of the epigrammatists whose short poems were gathered in the Greek Anthology. Paton's index of authors dates the poet to 3rd century BC. Paton's index lists the poet among the writers of Meleager's Wreath, the Garland compiled about 100 BC.

This archive carries the 6 epigrams ascribed to the poet in the second volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Book VII: 1, 247, 412, 429, 495, 536).