See Also: Anacreon(encyclopedia)

Anacreon (sh)




or Anakreon

born งใ 582 BC, Teos, Ionia
died งใ 485

Last great lyric poet of Asian Greece.

Only fragments of his poetry have survived. Though he may have written serious poems, the poems quoted by later writers are chiefly in praise of love, wine, and revelry. His sentiments and style were widely imitated, and the anacreontic metre in poetry was named for him.