Anacreon

Also known as: Anacreon of Teos · Family: Greek · Role: poet · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2

When Polycrates was tyrant at Samos, Anacreon lived at his court. Later, he is named near Xanthippus and described as “the first after Lesbian Sappho who wrote erotic poetry mainly.”

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 2

• patron: Polycrates (Anacreon lived at Polycrates's court.) “when Polycrates was tyrant at Samos Anacreon lived at his court”

Book 1 · Chapter 25

• with Xanthippus (The statue of Anacreon was near the statue of Xanthippus.) “near that of Xanthippus is Anacreon of Teos”
• with Xanthippus (Their statues were located near one another.) “near that of Xanthippus is Anacreon of Teos”
• with Sappho (Anacreon is described as the first poet after Sappho in this respect.) “the first after Lesbian Sappho who wrote erotic poetry mainly”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.