Complex sentence: Alcaeus (Alkaios, Attic Greek Ἀλκαῖος) of Mytilene (c.620 BC-6th century BC), Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse; he was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.
Split into simpler sentences: Alcaeus (Alkaios, Attic Greek Ἀλκαῖος) of Mytilene (c.620 BC-6th century BC), Greek lyric poet who supposedly invented the Alcaic verse. He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.