Anacreon
Ancient Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns · Turkey · Writers · Lived 570 BC to 485 BC · aged 85
Anacreon is read about 171 times a day, in 54 languages.
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Something wrong?A Greek poet who made wine, desire, and the ache of infatuation his entire catalogue - and got canonized for it.
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, To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.
The black earth drinks, in turnThe trees drink up the earth. The sea the torrents drinks, the sun the sea, And the moon drinks the sun.
Nature gave horns to the bull, Hoofs gave she to the horse. To the lion cavernous jaws, And swiftness to the hare.
About this person
Anacreon lived and wrote in the Ionic dialect around the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC, composing verses meant to be sung to the lyre. He built his reputation on drinking songs and erotic poems, leaning into themes most poets treated as side material: love, infatuation, disappointment, the texture of parties and festivals, the small truths of everyday people. The work was intimate, universal, and apparently irresistible. Later Greeks placed him among the Nine Lyric Poets, a canonical list that froze his name in the tradition. His subject was pleasure and its complications, and he never looked away.
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