A fragmentary poem praises this poet as “you with strands of hair in violet, O holy one, you with the honey-sweet smile.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet from Lesbos, who wrote the “Hymn to Aphrodite.”
ANSWER: Sappho
[10h] This contemporary of Sappho praised her “honey-sweet smile.” He wrote that “We should not surrender our hearts to our troubles, / for we shall make no headway by grieving” in a stanza form named for him.
ANSWER: Alcaeus [or Alcaeus of Mytilene; or Alceus]
[10m] In an Alcaeus fragment, the speaker calls for this action without “waiting for the lamps.” A Horace ode about Cleopatra begins “now is the time for [this action].”
ANSWER: drinking wine [or pínō; or nunc est bibendum; or bibere; accept word forms like drink]
<Albert Nyang, European Literature>