But now somebody weave corollas of dill for me
and adorn with them my neck.And the sweet scent of oil
pour on my chest.(English traslation by Maria Antonietta Tilli)
Alcaeus, a famous Greek lyric poet from Mitilini, lived beetween the VII and VI century B.Ch. He wrote odes, love poems, convivial and political songs. Of his literary production, we have only two hundred fragments left.