“Again the golden-haired Eros strikes me with his purple ball and challenges me to play with a girl in fancy sandals.”

About Anacreon

Poet • Greek

Anacreon was a celebrated Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs, erotic poems, and hymns. Born in the Ionian city of Teos, he later became a court poet for tyrants such as Polycrates of Samos and Hipparchus...