Author:Anacreon

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Anacreon (c. 570 BCE/c. 582 BCE – c. 485 BCE)

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Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns.

Anacreon

Works

• The Anacreontea (spurious)

Works about Anacreon

Biographical articles

• "Biographical Sketch of Anacreon", by Thomas Bourne, in Pindar and Anacreon (1846)
• “Anacreon”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Anacreon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Anacreon," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Poems and songs

• "The Anacreontic Song" ("To Anacreon in Heaven"), by Ralph Tomlinson (c. 1782)