Anacreon
Sign in to saveAnacreon ( BC) was an Ancient 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. Like all early lyric poetry, it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and the observations of everyday people and life.
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Anacreon was an ancient Greek poet famous for writing witty drinking songs and love poems in the Ionic dialect, composed to be performed with musical accompaniment like the lyre. His work, which explored timeless themes of romance, celebration, and daily life, earned him a place among the most important lyric poets in ancient Greek literary tradition.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0570-00-00
- Died
- 0485-01-01
- Works
- 262
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- [Ta tou Anakreantos kai Sapphous mele]
- Idylles de Théocrite et Odes anacréontiques
- Anakreontas, Anakreonteia epigrammata gia ton Anakreonta ap'tēn palatinē anthologia, 2 cholia, archaioi hymnoi, laïka tragoudakia
- The works of Anacreon and Sappho
- Carmina Anacreontea (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana) (German Edition)
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Anacreon (Greek Ἀνακρέων) (570 BC – 488 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor. Little more is known of his life with certainty. The name and identity of his father is a matter of dispute, with different authorities naming four possibilities: Scythianus, Eumelus, Parthenius, or Aristocritus. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/an
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Anacreon ( BC) was an Ancient 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. Like all early lyric poetry, it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals, and the observations of everyday people and life.
== Life == Anacreon lived in the sixth century BC. His exact year of birth is not known, with the general scholarly consensus being that he was likely born in the 570s BC: Hans Bernsdorff says c. 575, David Campbell says c. 570. The Suda reports four possible names for his father: Eumelus, Aristocritus, Parthenius, and Scythinus. Ancient sources agree that Anacreon came from Teos, on the coast of Ionia (modern Turkey); this tradition is attested as early as Herodotus, and at least one of Anacreon's fragments mentions the city. When Teos was conquered by Persia in the 540s BC, the Teians moved to Abdera, Thrace; Anacreon was probably already an adult.