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Anacreon (582–485 a. C.)

Poet, writer, epigrammatist, hofmeister · Teos

Also known as: Anakreont

Greece (Teos), c. 582–485 BC. The poet of wine, love and pleasure par excellence of archaic Greece, one of the nine lyric poets of the Alexandrian canon; his name gave rise to a whole tradition of festive verse. His work is in the public domain.

Poems