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Anyte of Tegea
thumb|right|Illustration of Anyte by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, for [[Renée Vivien's Les Kitharèdes]]
Anyte of Tegea (; ) was a Hellenistic poet from Tegea in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally accepted as authentic. She introduced rural themes to the genre, which became a standard theme in Hellenistic epigrams. She is one of the nine outstanding ancient women poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology. Her pastoral poetry ma
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