Anacreon
(570–490)
Anacreon (B * TEOS CA 570 BC – D † CA 490/485 BC) Legendary Greek poet of the sixth century BC who lived mainly on the isle of Samos in the eastern Aegean just off the Turkish coast, under the rule of the tyrant Polycrates (D CA 522 BC). His poetry survives only in fragments, and is known for its treatment of love and wine. He is reputed to have choked to death on a grape pip, but this is perhaps a cautionary legend added to his mystique. He also supposedly had a love affair with a boy named…