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	Anacreon - LoveToKnow 1911
		Anacreon seems to have taken part in the fighting, in which, on his own admission, he did not distinguish himself, but, like Alcaeus and Horace, threw away his shield and fled.
		Anacreon was for a long time popular at Athens, where his statue was to be seen on the Acropolis, together with that of his friend Xanthippus, the father of Pericles.
		Anacreon had a reputation as a composer of hymns, as well as of those bacchanalian and amatory lyrics which are commonly associated with his name.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anacreon (1019 words)

	Anacreon
		Little is known of his life, but it is likely that he shared the voluntary exile of the mass of his fellow-townsmen who sailed to Abdera in Thrace, where they founded a colony, rather than remaining behind to surrender their city to Harpagus[?], one of Cyrus the Great's generals.
		Anacreon seems to have taken part in the fighting, in which, on his own admission, he did not distinguish himself.
		Like his fellow-lyric poet, Horace, who was one of his great admirers, and in many respects of a kindred spirit, Anacreon seems to have been made for the society of courts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anacreon.html (975 words)

	Anacreon (563-478 B.C.)
		ANACREON was an Ionian Greek, born at Teos, a seaport in Ionic Asia Minor.
		He is the typical Ionian poet -- the poet of ease, enjoyment, and grace; of love, too, but of love that is the exact opposite to the love of Sappho.
		His nearest parallel in ancient literature is Horace; but Anacreon has none of the quiet wisdom of Horace, or his genial sympathy with all phases of human life.
	www.usefultrivia.com /biographies/anacreon_001.html (210 words)

	Anacreon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor.
		Anacreon's verses were primarily in the form of monody, which means that they were to be performed by a single voice rather than by a chorus.
		Anacreon had a reputation as a composer of hymns, as well as of those bacchanalian and amatory lyrics - some of a pederastic nature - which are commonly associated with his name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anacreon_(poet) (1649 words)

	Anacreon
		He is said to have acted as tutor to Polycrates; that he enjoyed the tyrant's confidence we learn on the authority of Herodotus, who represents the poet as sitting in the royal chamber when audience was given to the Persian herald.
		Of the five books of lyrical pieces by Anacreon which Suïdas and Athenaeus mention as extant in their time, we have now but the merest fragments, collected from the citations of later writers.
		Again, only one of the quotations from Anacreon in ancient writers is to be found in these poems, which further contain no references to contemporaries, whereas Strabo expressly states that Anacreon's poems included numerous allusions to Polycrates.
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	Anacreon
		Anacreon was born in the city of Teos in what is now western Turkey, and fled his hometown in his late twenties when it fell to the Persians.
		Anacreon used a metrical style which was employed and imitated by poets for centuries after his passing, and the term "Anacreontic" was coined to describe poems written in this style, although it was not the only one Anacreon used and he probably did not invent it.
		Anacreon was so admired that the Athenians erected a statue of him at the Acropolis, and his works so numerous that five complete volumes were collected and kept in the Library at Alexandria.
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /anacreon.html (643 words)

	IDG Anacreon (poet) IDG (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Anacreon was for a long time popular at Athens, where his statue was to ƅe seen on the Acropolis, Athens, together with that of his friend Xanthippus, the father of Pericles.
		Anacreon's verses were primarily in the form of monody, which means that they were to ƅe performed ƅy a single voice rather than ƅy a chorus.
		Anacreon had a reputation as a composer of hymns, as well as of those ƅacchanalian and amatory lyrics - some of a Pederasty in ancient Greece nature - which are commonly associated with his name.
	xcombox.info.cob-web.org:8888 /1142 (1668 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1337 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Pherecydes of Syros, the philosopher, and Theognis of Megara, the poet, flourished.
		The philosopher Pythagoras and the poet Anacreon flourished.
		Anacreon and Simonides came to Athens in the reign of Hipparchus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3671.html (455 words)

	Anacreontics - LoveToKnow 1911
		ANACREONTICS (from the name of the Greek poet Anacreon), the title given to short lyrical pieces, of an easy kind, dealing with love and wine.
		The English word appears to have been first used in 1656 by Abraham Cowley, who called a section of his poems "anacreontiques," because they were paraphrased out of the so-called writings of Anacreon into a familiar measure which was supposed to represent the metre of the Greek.
		He dwells, moreover, on the absurdity of writing "pious anacreontics," a feat, however, which was performed by several of the Greek Christian poets, and in particular by Gregory of Nazianzus and John of Damascus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anacreontics (170 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.05.17
		Chapter one, "Origins: The role of Anacreon as model," deals first with the biographical tradition of Anacreon which, within a couple of generations of Anacreon's death, distilled the poet's life and art into a stereotype consisting of two main qualities: love and wine.
		Their Anacreon exists in "the anacreontic sphere" (p.2), a key concept in R.'s understanding of these poems, and one of immediate appeal and persuasiveness.
		Similarly, whereas in Anacreon the poet's white hairs prompt self-deprecating resignation to diminished powers and rejection in love, the anacreontic poet's age -- like that of an Aristophanic hero -- is a lusty winter, frosty but kindly, undiminished in strength and enjoyment.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1992/03.05.17.html (2984 words)

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		Anacreon moved to Samos and from this point his career as a poet was mainly associated with the courts of tyrants, who were important patrons of art and literature in the 6th century BC.
		Anacreon was the successor to the work of poets Lesbos, Alcaeus and Sappho, but his poems have little of their intensity or passion, and instead, serious emotion is replaced by an urbane, witty attitude.
		Poets Robert Herrick, William Oldys, and William Shenstone wrote original anacreontics in English, and Thomas Moore provided perhaps the finest translation of the 'Anacreontea' in 1800 under the title 'Odes of Anacreon'.
	www.k-web.org /public_html/burke/f4/UpToF_IndividualBios/anacreon.doc (842 words)

	Greek Poets - Crystalinks
		The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic Greek dialect, were of various kinds: hymns to the gods; martial or political comment, sometimes quite personal; and lastly love-songs and drinking-songs, the kind of poetry that would be read aloud at a symposium.
		His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the Alexandrian tragic Pleiad; we only know the title of one play (Astragalistae.) He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence.
		Of the five books of lyrical pieces by Anacreon which the Suda and Athenaeus mention as extant in their time, we have now but the merest fragments, collected from the citations of later writers.
	www.crystalinks.com /greekpoets.html (2087 words)

	Detail Page
		Witty, decadent, and evidently bisexual, Anacreon was the poet of pleasure.
		Anacreon exemplified the wealth and sophistication of his native region of Ionia, which during the poet's own lifetime fell disastrously to Persian invasion.
		Anacreon was in his teens or 20s when he joined the evacuation of Teos to escape the attacking Persians, ca.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0046 (634 words)

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		Turning to Anacreon's own works, R. finds that critics, in keeping with, and doubtless influenced by, the stock persona generated in antiquity, have--anachronistically --stressed the poet's amiable, unthreatening charm and elegance, his playful focus on love and wine.
		To this "construct" of Anacreon the poets of the Anacreontea --who span the centuries from the Hellenistic era until the 5th and 6th cent.
		Similarly, whereas in Anacreon the poet's white hairs prompt self-deprecating resignation to diminished powers and rejection in love, the anacreontic poet's age--like that of an Aristophanic hero--is a lusty winter, frosty but kindly, undiminished in strength and enjoyment.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-v3n05-bing-poetics.txt (2864 words)

	Bio-Buzz.com - Poet Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Named for a 12th century poet, Leonius, who first composed such verse, it consists of hexameters or of hexameters and pentameters in which the final syllable rhymes with one preceding the caesura, in the middle of the line.
		Of or relating to a group of 17th century poets whose verse was distinguished by an intellectual and philosophical style, with extended metaphors or conceits comparing very dissimilar things.
		Poetic License - The liberties generally allowable for a poet to take with his subject-matter to achieve a desired effect or with his grammatical construction, etc., to conform to the requirements of rhyme and meter; but in a broader sense, it includes "creative" deviations from historical fact, such as anachronisms.
	www.bio-buzz.com /poet_glossary (9988 words)

	Andrew LEAR The Idealization of Pederasty in Archaic Greek Poetry and Vase-Painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Anacreon largely eschews the political and the pedagogical; his relations with boys revolve around purely erotic desire.
		Anacreon valorizes the purely erotic and the Dionysiac, and it is with these things that he connects pederasty.
		Yet as in Anacreon, the presence of the erotic does not detract from pederasty's idealized status: several crucial elements in vase-painting symbolize the sexual moderation of the lovers, which vase-painting &emdash; again like Anacreon &emdash; contrasts sharply with dispraised sexual behavior/attitudes, represented in particular in Tyrrhenian komos scenes.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/LEAR.html (519 words)

	Anacreon, Greece, ancient history
		Poet from Teos in Asia Minor who lived and worked in Athens, Samos and Thessaly.
		Anacreon is credited with a satire about the inventor of the throwing machine, Artemon Periforetos, who was so anxious for his security that he always had his slaves carry him around close to the ground in case he should fall out, and with a shield above him in case anything should fall from above.
		Anacreon lived until the age of 85, when he choked on a grape and died.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/anacreon.htm (129 words)

	Berlin Exhibition
		Shown reciting at a symposium, the bearded poet stands with one arm raised-- gesturing, perhaps, to the rhythm of his words-- while the cloak draped around his shoulders falls away in deep folds from an otherwise naked body.
		The tilt of his head and the sway of his hips suggest that Anacreon has been captured in a moment of tipsy euphoria, but the sculptor was careful to add a stylistic detail meant to remind us of the esteemed poet's self-control.
		Anacreon's genitals appear to be tied in a knot: a symbol, often used to show respect, which represents moderation and restraint.
	www.helleniccomserve.com /berlin.html (1796 words)

	Anacreon
		Anacreon of the Guillotine, Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755-1841).
		Anacreon of the Temple, Guillaume Amfrye, abbé de Chaulieu (1639-1720).
		Anacreon Moore, Thomas Moore of Dublin (1780-1852), poet, called "Anacreon," from his translation of that Greek poet, and his own original anacreontic songs.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Anacreon.html (2093 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Greek Literature: Ancient
		Anacreon, born ca 570 B.C.E. at Teos on the coast of Asia Minor, was also a dependent of Polycrates, whose court was a major literary center where erotic verse was much favored.
		Anacreon, we are told, later fell in love with the boy.
		When Polycrates was killed by Persian treachery, Anacreon had the good fortune to win the patronage of Hipparchus, the co-tyrant (with his brother Hippias) of Athens.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/greek_lit_ancient,3.html (825 words)

	Romanian literature
		Lyric poetry was cultivated toward the end of the century in love songs (1769-99), in the tradition of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, by Alecu Vacarescu.
		Lucian Blaga was a philosophic essayist and poet, while Gala Galaction translated the Bible and wrote mystical poems and novels on biblical subjects.
		Among those who came to the fore during and after World War II were the poets Maria Banus, who expressed the struggle for peace; Miron Paraschivescu, a lyric poet taking themes from folklore; and Marcel Breslasu, a complex writer on a wide range of themes.
	gbg59.tripod.com /web/romlit.htm (1786 words)

	Chapter Amreet <i>to</i> Anacreon Moore of A by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Anacreon, the prince of erotic and bacchanalian poets, insomuch that songs on these subjects are still called anacreontic (B.C. Anacreon of Painters, Francesco Albano or Albani (1578–1660).
		Anacreon of the Temple, Guillaume Amfrye, abbé de Chaulieu (1639–1720).
		Anacreon Moore, Thomas Moore of Dublin (1779–1852), poet.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1111/15778/3.html (393 words)

	A Manual of Greek Literature, page 113 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		All the writers of the best times of Greece speak of Anacreon, as a man, in the same high terms in which they record his merit as a poet; and a poet whom Plato calls the wise, was assuredly not a lover of licentious-
		It was part of the poet's Ionic nature that his poems on these subjects were more light and playful than the deep and impassioned songs of Sappho and Alcaeus.
		Besides the numerous fragments of the genuine poems of Anacreon preserved in ancient writers, there is a collection of fifty-five odes which have been generally considered as poems of Anacreon^ most of which, however, are productions of a much later age.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0127.html (504 words)

	More info about the poet: Anacreon - references bibliography (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The Sons of Anacreon are the ultimate devotees to the esteemed personage of Anacreon, possibly the first poet to write of Wine, Women and Song.
		Anacreon ancient Greek poet who was, after Archilochus, the most important writer of personal lyric poetry in the Ionic dialect.
		To Anacreon in Heav'n / To Anacreon in Heavenmp3 midi free...
	www.poemhunter.com.cob-web.org:8888 /anacreon/resources/poet-25289/page-1 (768 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Anacreon
		After the death of his father, he was closely associated with his brother Hippias, tyrant of Athens, in ruling the Athenian city-state.
		Under Hippias he was a patron of the arts and sponsored the poets Anacreon and Simonides.
		The words were written by Francis Scott Key, a young Washington attorney who, during the War of 1812, sailed to the British fleet to obtain the release of a captured American.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Anacreon (445 words)

	Griechische Klassik - Bildthemen und Bildformen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Statue of the poet Anacreon Marble, height 190 cm Roman copy from the 2nd century AD after a Greek original dated around 450/40 BC Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Inv.
		The section is equally concerned with change and the laws governing these clues in relation to writing which developed and became established in many areas during the classical period (the writing of history and drama etc).
		In the centre of this section stands the statue of the drunken lyric poet Anacreon representing the symposium and its meaning for classical society´s awareness of itself.
	www.smb.spk-berlin.de /klassik2002/klassiksite_v2_e/themen/3_bildthemen_und_bildformen/body2.html (129 words)

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