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Anacreon

Born

Teos in Asia Minor

Genre

Poetry

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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 4.16 avg rating — 70 ratings — published -500 — 217 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon. Anacreontea. Early Choral Lyric by Anacreon, David A. Campbell (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classical Love Poetry (Digital Audiobook Chips) by Anacreon, Homer, Sappho 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anacreon by Anacreon, Thomas Stanley 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmentos completos seguidos das Anacreônticas by Anacreon, Leonardo Antunes (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poemas y fragmentos by Anacreon, Juan Manuel Rodríguez Tobal (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anakreon Poeta Grecki (1774) (Polish Edition) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anakreon: The Extant Fragments by Anacreon, Guy Davenport (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anacreontica graece recensuit notisque criticis instruxit Fridericus Henricus Bothe .. by Anacreon (creator), Friedrich Heinrich 1771-1855 Ed Bothe (Creator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odes of Anacreon, Anacreontics, and other selections from the Greek anthology liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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

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

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