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| | Anyte, the poet of Tegea |
 | | The Arcadian poet Anyte of Tegea lived at the beginning of the third century B.C.E. She was so highly esteemed in antiquity that in the well-known Stephanos (“Garland”), a collection compiled by Meleager (early 1st century), the “lilies of Anyte” are the first poems to be entwined in the “wreath of poets”. |
 | | She chooses what was, at the time, a typical epigrammatic material: in her twenty or so genuine epigrams, verses expressing pity for the deaths of young women and animals and affectionate delight in children far outnumber those glorifying masculine achievements. |
 | | Anyte's efforts to create audience empathy with the visualized object blur strict boundaries between textual perceiver and thing perceived, and consequently between that perceiver and the reader. |
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