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Anacreon
A master of ancient Greek lyric poetry, this much-admired voice became famous for songs of love, wine, and pleasure. Though only fragments survive, the poems still feel lively, musical, and intensely human.
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Born in Teos in Ionia around the 6th century BCE, Anacreon was one of the great lyric poets of ancient Greece. Ancient sources connect him with the courts of Polycrates on Samos and later Hipparchus in Athens, where he was celebrated for poetry meant to be sung or recited with music.
His surviving work is fragmentary, but it made a lasting impression. The poems most often associated with him turn to love, feasting, desire, and the passing pleasures of life, all in a style that later readers found graceful, witty, and light on its feet.
That influence lasted far beyond antiquity. Later Greek writers imitated his manner so successfully that whole groups of poems were long linked with his name, and the term "Anacreontic" came to describe convivial, love-tinged verse inspired by his example.