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Anacreon
Known for lively songs about love, wine, and pleasure, this ancient Greek lyric poet became one of the best-known voices of the archaic world. Although only fragments of his work survive, his style shaped later poetry for centuries.
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Odes d'Anacréon
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About the author
Born in Teos in Ionia in the 6th century BCE, Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet whose work was admired across the Greek world. Ancient sources connect him with the courts of Polycrates on Samos and later Hipparchus in Athens, where his poetry seems to have found an eager audience.
He became especially famous for short, musical poems about love, feasting, desire, and the pleasures of life. Only fragments of his original verses survive, but they were influential enough that later Greek writers composed poems in his manner; those later imitations are often grouped under the name Anacreontea.
What remains of his writing still feels light on its feet: witty, elegant, and tuned to performance. Even in fragmentary form, Anacreon stands out as one of antiquity’s defining lyric voices, remembered less for epic grandeur than for charm, intimacy, and song.