#anakreon

[derangedrhythms]

I’m in love! I’m not in love! I’m crazy! I’m not crazy! 

Anakreon, quoted in ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’ by Anne Carson

[quotes-for-the-soul]

Mother Nature gave bulls horns and gave horses hooves for speed; she gave lions a huge mouth, and filled it with long, mean teeth; she taught fish to swim and gave birds the wide, high sky. To man she gave wisdom. And to women? What was left? To woman she offered a beauty that is both a sword and a shield, to woman a beauty equal to fire or steel.

Anakreon

from The Infinite Moment: Poems from Ancient Greek translated by Sam Hamill

[imaginedmoon]

[virgin-martyr]

with whom subduer Love and dark-eyed Nymphs and rosy Aphrodite play [...] I implore you — bid him accept my love.

Anakreon, trans. by Diane Rayor from Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece

[igormag]

Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885–1967), textile design Anakreon, 1930s.

[coffeenewstom]

Samiotisches Kaffeetagebuch II: die Akropolis des Polykrates

Drei große Bauwerke werden Polykrates, dem Tyrannen von Samos, zugeschrieben – ob zu Recht oder zu Unrecht, darüber streiten sich heute Archäologen wie Historiker. Herodot war es, der in seinen Historien Polykrates als Urheber der drei großen samischen Bauten benennt. Herodot zählt dazu den Tunnel des Eupalinos, das Heraion und den Hafen von Samos. Die gewaltige Stadtmauer und die dazugehörige…

Samiotisches Kaffeetagebuch II: die Akropolis des Polykrates

[akiraofthefour]

Erotic phrases like these from Anakreon and Sappho flatter the ear shamefully: whiter than milk, smoother than water, more songlike than lyres, prouder than a mare, more delicate than roses, softer than a robe, more expensive than gold!

Gregory of Corinth

[mordita]

𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐧

ᴳᴿᴱᴱᴷ ᴸᵞᴿᴵᶜ ᴾᴼᴱᵀ

ᴍᴜsᴇᴇ ᴅ'ᴏʀsᴀʏ

ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕤