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Anacreon

Born: 582? AD
Died: 485? AD.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Poets, Satirists

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Greek lyric poet, love poet, and satirist






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Page last updated: 11:39pm, 14th Jun '07

  • "I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad."

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Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman (Loeb Classical Library No. 143)
by Anacreon (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1988)
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The Poetics of Imitation: Anacreon and the Anacreontic Tradition
by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer (Paperback - Nov 2, 2006)
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by G. O. Hutchinson (Paperback - Oct 9, 2003)
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