Alcaeus was also a lyric poet of the archaic period.
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Alcaeus was allotted the second place among the nine lyric poets in the Alexandrian canon.
The considerable number of fragments extant, and the well-known imitations of Horace, who regarded Alcaeus as his great model, enable us to form a fair idea of the character of his poems.
See Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882); also The Songs of Alcaeus,' by J. Easby-Smith (Washington, 1901); Plehn, Lesbiacorum Liber (1826); Flach, Geschichte der griechischen Lyrik (1883-1884); Farriell, Creek Lyric Poets (1891).
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