Anacreontic Society
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The Anacreontic Society was a popular gentlemen's club of amateur musicians in London founded in the mid-18th century. These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the
James Gillray's "Anacreontick's in full Song", 1801
The Crown and Anchor tavern, where the Society met from the late 1770s, is visible on the right. The Church on the left is St Clement Danes.
A bust of Anacreon
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
Anacreontic Society
…musicians in London founded in the mid-18th century. These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon, who lived in the 6th century B.C. and whose poems, "anacreontics", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens. Dubbed "the convivial bard of…
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