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Anacreon (/ ə ˈ n æ k r i ən /; Greek: Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; c. 575 – c. 495 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect.
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet who wrote in the Ionic dialect. Only fragments of his verse have survived. The edition of Anacreon’s poetry known to later generations was probably prepared in Alexandria by Aristarchus in the 2nd century bce and divided into 9 or 10 books on the basis of.
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Anacreon (Greek: Ἀνακρέων) (born c. 570 B.C.E.) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his songs, hymns, and personable poems celebrating the lighter side of life. Like Archilocus, Anacreon is notable for writing about personal matters drawn from life, in sharp contrast to the predominantly mythological and historical poetry that ...
Anacreon, or Anakreon, (born c. 582 bc, Teos, Ionia—died c. 485), Last great lyric poet of Asian Greece. Only fragments of his poetry have survived. Though he may have written serious poems, the poems quoted by later writers are chiefly in praise of love, wine, and revelry.
Only fragments of Anacreon's work still exist. Most of the poems we today recognize as Anacreontic were preserved in the Greek Anthologia, although significant fragments are quoted in the works of other ancients. The most extensive collection of Anacreon's verse is held at the Vatican.
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May 23, 2018 · Anacreon (ənăk´rēən, –ŏn), c.570–c.485 BC, Greek lyric poet, b. Teos in Ionia. He lived at Samos and at Athens, where his patron was Hipparchus. His poetry, graceful and elegant, celebrates the joys of wine and love. Little of his verse survives.
Anacreon. As we have seen, on one hand Xenophanes and Solon, and on the other Heraclitus, invidiously opposed the ethical and metaphysical disunity of Homeric poetry to symposiastic values. Anacreon of Teos, in contrast, suggests that he is willing to incorporate Homeric poetry into his own sympotic poetry, provided that Homeric themes are ...
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