Anacreon
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Anacreon 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
A bust of Anacreon in the Louvre
Red-figure vase depicting the assassination of Anacreon's Athenian patron Hipparchus
Anacreon singing and playing his lyre.
Anachreon, Bachus et l'Amour by Jean-Léon Gérôme
The Anacreontic Song
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"The Anacreontic Song", also known by its incipit "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London. Composed b
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…death on a grape seed. The ancient stereotype of Anacreon as the elderly, drunken poet of love was illustrated by Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Anacreontic Song Baumbach, Manuel (2016). "Anacreon". Brill's New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 7 : Figures of Antiquity and their Reception in Art, Literature and…
First page of the A. Blands edition (c. 1784–1790)