Anacreon
historical figure · 10 works · 10 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Anacreon of Teos · Anacreon the Ionian poet
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Poet invited to Athens by Hipparchus.
Hipparchus was playful, amorous, and a lover of the Muses (and it was he who sent for Anacreon and Simonides and the other poets).
Tusculan Disputations
Greek lyric poet whose poetry is characterized as wholly about love
For the whole poetry of Anacreon, indeed, is of love.
Stromata
Lyric poet cited as source for Euripides's lines on the god of Love.
" For when Anacreon had made, "I am minded to sing of delicate Love, blossoming with garlands of many flowers;
Orations
Lyric poet whose songs and prayers to Dionysus are cited as models of what a king should not sing or pray.
nor would it be fitting for kings to sing the love-songs of Sappho or of Anacreon, but, if any at all, the songs of Stesichorus or of Pindar, should there be any necessity.
"And with these things it follows that the king should not even offer prayers like those of other men, nor should he call upon the gods praying as did Anacreon the Ionian poet:
The Histories
Greek poet from Teos, mentioned as being in Polycrates' company at Samos in one reported version of the events preceding Polycrates' death.
A few people, however, say that when Oroetes sent a herald to Samos with some request (it is not said what this was), the herald found Polycrates lying in the men's apartments, in the company of Anacreon of Teos;
Charmides
Lyric poet credited with celebrating the beauty and virtue of Critias' paternal house.
For your father’s house, which comes from Critias, son of Dropides, has been celebrated by Anacreon and Solon and many other poets, so that it is famed by tradition among us as preeminent in beauty and virtue and all else that is accounted happiness;
Hipparchus
A poet from Teos whom Hipparchus is said to have fetched to Athens aboard a fifty-oared galley.
He dispatched a fifty-oared galley for Anacreon of Teos, and brought him into our city.
Phaedrus
Poet Socrates names alongside Sappho as a possible unconscious source of eloquence.
but I certainly must have heard something, either from the lovely Sappho or the wise Anacreon, or perhaps from some prose writers.
Theages
Lyric poet whose ode about Callicrite is cited when defining the subject-matter of despotic wisdom.
They are the same subjects that Anacreon said Callicrite understood;
Well then, do you desire to partake in some instruction of that sort from any man who is a fellow-craftsman of Callicrite, daughter of Cyane, and knows all about despotism as she did, according to the poet, in order that you may become a despot over us and our city?
The. I do.
Letters to Lucilius
Greek lyric poet
In these books it is inquired what was Homer's country, in these who was the true mother of Aeneas, in these whether Anacreon lived more lustfully or more drunkenly, in these whether Sappho was a public woman, and other things which, if you knew them, you would have to unlearn.