person
Anacreon
also: Anacreonta
Archaic Greek lyric poet of Teos, famed for light verse on wine and love, especially for the boy Bathyllus.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.17 Teian string
The lyre of Anacreon of Teos, to whose strain Tyndaris will sing of Penelope and Circe.
- The Odes §4.9 Anacreon
Whose playful love-songs 'still breathe.'
- The Epodes §14 Anacreon
The archaic Greek lyric poet of Teos, famed for light verse on wine and love, who pined for the boy Bathyllus.