Anacreontea (Greek: Ἀνακρεόντεια) is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship of Dionysus. The corpus date to between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, and is attributed pseudepigraphically to Anacreon.
The collection of poems by numerous, anonymous imitators was long believed to be the works of Anacreon himself. It was preserved in a 10th-century manuscript which also included the Palatine Anthology. The poems were published in 1554 with a Latin translation by Henri Estienne, known as Stephanus, but little is known about the origins of the manuscript. Salmasius reports seeing the Anacreontea in the Palatine Library in Heidelberg in 1607. In 1623, it was given to Pope Gregory XV after the sacking of Heidelberg. It was later taken from the Vatican City by Napoleon in 1797, who had it rebound as two separate volumes. One of those volumes was returned to Heidelberg but the other remained in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
In the 17th century, Thomas Stanley translated the Anacreontea into English verse. A few poems were also translated by Robert Herrick and Abraham Cowley. The poems themselves appear to have been composed over a long period of time, from the time of Alexander the Great until the time that paganism gave way in the Roman Empire. They reflect the light hearted elegance of much of Anacreon's genuine works although they were not written in the same Ionic Greek dialect that Anacreon used. They also display literary references and styles more common to the time of their actual composition.
Anacreontea (Greek: Ἀνακρεόντεια) is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship...
was long believed to be the works of Anacreon himself. Known as the Anacreontea, it was preserved in a 10th-century manuscript which also included the...
wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving poems are known as the Anacreontea) took up the same themes and used the Anacreontic meter. In modern poetry...
from Callinus to Crates excepting the cholliambic writers, with the Anacreontea, 2 vols., (London: Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931) Vol...
Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2390. Campbell, D. A. (1989). Greek Lyric II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympis to Alcman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press...
companions of his. Methe was the daughter of Dionysus in some accounts. The Anacreontea thus describes the mythological connections of Methe: Let us be merry...
poetry included Eros being stung by bees. The story is first found in the Anacreontea, attributed to sixth century BC author Anacreon, and goes that Eros once...
Internet Archive. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman, Loeb Classical Library No. 143...
miniature people. "The Naughty Boy" was based on a poem about Eros from the Anacreontea, and "The Traveling Companion" was a ghost story Andersen had experimented...
Studies in Hellenistic Judaism. Brill. p. 203. ISBN 90-04-10418-6. Anacreontea fragment 38. Usually said to be the daughters of Zeus by Eurynome. Nonnus...
Eurynome with Zeus (Hesiod Theogony 907) or of Aphrodite with Dionysus (Anacreontea fragment 38). Diophantus in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica...
Approximate year: Título de Totonicapán (anonymous Kʼicheʼ language document) Anacreontea (Greek poems of 1st century BC – 6th century AD, published for first...
Internet Archive. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume II: Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman, Loeb Classical Library No. 143...
refusal to write a major epic, preferring slighter poetic forms. The Anacreontea contain many similar examples. In Augustan Rome, pressure to write an...
Banner", the national anthem of the United States of America. Anacreontics Anacreontea "To Anacreon in Heaven" Anonymous, "History of the Anacreontic Society"...
Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: The reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's lyric and iambic poetry. Go ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht...
Press, 1930) Medallions from Anyte of Tegea, Meleager of Gadara, the Anacreontea, Latin Poets of the Renaissance (1930) translator The Memoirs of Marmontel...
I. Sappho and Alcaeus L143) Greek Lyric Poetry: Volume II. Anacreon, Anacreontea, Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman L476) Greek Lyric Poetry: Volume...
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980, ix + 295 pp. ISBN 0-19-814589-6 Carmina Anacreontea, edidit Martin L. West (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum...
(in the second vol.), of the Attis of Catullus, of a certain number of Anacreontea, and of several Greek epigrams are particularly praiseworthy. Michelassi...
Unfortunate Family); Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson illustrated books by Virgil, Anacreontea, Racine and other writers, which were published by the Didot brothers...
the Carmina Anacreontea. De Gruyter. pp. 181–. ISBN 978-3-11-033414-2. Mimesis, Poiesis and the Poetic Inspiration in the Carmina Anacreontea Manuel Baumbach...
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