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Anacreon


Born
Teos in Asia Minor
Genre


563? BC - 478? BC.
Songs of noted Greek poet Anacreon praised love and wine.

This able lyricist drank with hymns. People later included him in the canonical list of nine lyric. Anacreon wrote in the ancient Ionic dialect. People composed all early lyrics to recite to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. It touched on universal themes of infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and the observations of everyday people and life.

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The Odes of Anacreon

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Classical Love Poetry (Digi...

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Anacreon

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Anakreon: The Extant Fragments

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“Boy with a maiden's glance,
I seek you out, but you hear not,
Unknowing that you are the charioteer
Of my soul.”
Anacreon

“Once again Eros has struck me, like a bronze smith, with a large axe and washed me in a wintry mountain stream.”
Anacreon

“And, on the ocean's crystal mirror,”
Anacreon, The Odes of Anacreon

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