Anacreon Biography
Greek lyric poet, native of Teos. Little is known of his life. He probably joined in the foundation of Abdera by the Teans fleeing before the threat of the Persian general Harpagus in 545. He joined the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. After the murder of Polycrates by the satrap Oroetes he joined the Pisistratid court at Athens.
The range of what survives is narrow. Wine and love (both homosexual and heterosexual) figure prominently. His control of form produces an appearance of effortlessness. Many poems have an epigrammatic quality. Words are positioned with great effect. Striking images for love abound. Delicacy, wit, paradox, irony, and self‐mockery are prominent. He also produced biting abuse in the iambic tradition (see iambic poetry, greek). His wit inspired a corpus of frivolous imitations in and after the Hellenistic period, the Anacreontea.
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| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Observe When Mother Earth is Dry | 0 | 1.133 | 04/17/2011 - 19:21 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Now the Star of Day is High | 0 | 975 | 04/17/2011 - 19:21 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Mirth | 0 | 911 | 04/17/2011 - 19:20 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Mingle, My Boy, a Little Draught for Me | 0 | 847 | 04/17/2011 - 19:19 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : The Lute | 0 | 1.218 | 04/17/2011 - 19:19 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/Love | Anacreon Poems : Love's Night Walk | 0 | 1.808 | 04/17/2011 - 19:18 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/Love | Anacreon Poems : Love's Mark | 0 | 2.690 | 04/17/2011 - 19:17 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Love's Arrows | 0 | 905 | 04/17/2011 - 19:16 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Listen to the Muse's Lyre | 0 | 1.034 | 04/17/2011 - 19:15 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : I Will; I Will; the Conflict's Past | 0 | 786 | 04/17/2011 - 18:51 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : I Pray Thee, by the Gods Above | 0 | 1.104 | 04/17/2011 - 18:50 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Instructions to a Painter | 0 | 878 | 04/17/2011 - 18:46 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : I Care Not for the Idle State | 0 | 814 | 04/17/2011 - 18:45 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Here Recline You, Gentle Maid | 0 | 961 | 04/17/2011 - 18:44 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : The Grasshopper | 0 | 1.272 | 04/17/2011 - 18:42 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Grave Me a Cup with Brilliant Grace | 0 | 1.003 | 04/17/2011 - 18:41 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Gold | 0 | 941 | 04/17/2011 - 18:40 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Give Me the Harp of Epic Song | 0 | 867 | 04/17/2011 - 18:38 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : The Dream | 0 | 1.051 | 04/17/2011 - 18:37 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Count Me, on the Summer Trees | 0 | 1.214 | 04/17/2011 - 18:37 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : The Bowl of Song | 0 | 978 | 04/17/2011 - 18:35 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : The Bee | 0 | 983 | 04/17/2011 - 18:34 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : Beauty | 0 | 1.119 | 04/17/2011 - 18:33 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : As Late I Sought the Spangled Bowers | 0 | 967 | 04/17/2011 - 18:32 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Anacreon Poems : And Now With All Thy Pencil's Truth | 0 | 1.259 | 04/17/2011 - 18:30 | English |






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