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Anacreon
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Anacreon

Greek lyric poet. He lived in Abdera, Samos, and Athens, where he was favoured both before and after the institution of democracy. His love poetry, of great charm, was later widely imitated in verse known as the Anacreontics.



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A good example of conformity to customs is that a sixth-century Greek poet, Anakreon, remarks that Dorians were known by their dress (Hall 1997: 38) and Thucydides mentions that the inhabitants of Gela in Sicily adopted Dorian customs (Pindar, PYTHIAN ODES 1.
 
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