Last name: Anakreont z Teos
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Also known as: Anakreont
Born: 570 p.n.e. (Teos city)
Died: 485 p.n.e. ().
Anakreont – Ok. 570-485 p.n.e., Greek lyrical poet born in Teos in Asia Minor, author of many songs, Elegies, epigrams, satyr, The court poet, among others. Polycrates, Samos tyrant island, and then at Hipparch in Athens, and at echekrates in Tesalia. Only OK has survived from the rich and appreciated in the poet's life.. 100 fragments and only three songs in full. After the death of Anakreont, the poet monuments in Athens and Teos were erected; The genre of feast poetry he created found numerous followers, creating the so -called. Anacreontics. Anakreont's popularity in Poland has been dated since the Renaissance, przede wszystkim za sprawą tłumaczeń i parafraz Jana Kochanowskiego, Jana Smolika (1560-ok.1600), Melchior Pudłowski (ok.1540-1588), a także Mikołaja Sępa-Sarzyńskiego. Do Anakreonta nawiązywali także m.in. Jan Morsztyn, Adam Naruszewicz, Franciszek Zabłocki i Franciszek Kniaźnin – called “Polish Anakreont”. Jerzy Danielewicz has recently postponed all surviving texts of Anakreont.
Anakreont was due to the fame and position of the court poet, in which the specific Greek understanding of eroticism generally intertwined with the mood of a cheerful feast or a slightly marked existential reflection, e.g.: in poems devoted to the passage of time, old age(Eros looked at my chin/flushed with silver threads). In the tradition of Greek erotic, many songs were devoted to love for the same sex (por. Safona), What in the work of Anakreont was reflected in numerous works representing the so -called. Boyish erotica, targeted at young friends of the poet; There are funny lyrics imitating hymns summoning the gods (np. apparent kopette anthem, that is, the tall, to Dionysus, being a call to the feelings of a young Kleubos). Anakreont has disseminated many characteristic motifs for Greek erotica, among others. The motive of Eros throwing ball towards the future lover, eagerly used by the poet's followers, The already mentioned motif of gray hair (that is, old age to young people), Fighting Eros on Fist, as well as the motif of the feast as the ideal of harmony with the world. Anakreant's songs breathe a sense of satisfaction with life, satiety and emphasize the importance of fun and distance to the world as a source of happiness. The less known satirical creativity of Anakreont indicates the poetic talent of the creator of malicious portraits of his contemporaries (though not very sophisticated, For example. directs the rhetorical question to the bald strattis, will he ever grow his hair).
Anakreont, however, remained above all the champion of a small feast and erotic form (anacreontic), in which he willingly uses a paradox, delicate self -irony, grips taken from serious songs, used in a playful song, like for example. In a typical epigram for further feast and fun:
Not the one close to me, who with a full jug
He talks about feuds and a painful war,
But this one, who gifts Muz and Aphrodite
Connecting, He remembers the feasts of charm
In some songs, Anakreont brings out a more personal tone, with a strong emotional charge (“And you have an fearful heart,/ Boy about the number of all the most beautiful”), Although it is not possible to put an equal sign between the lyrical subject of these poems and their author – Anakreont often wrote to order, By consolidating the beauty of the palace feasts in his poetry and responding to the needs of court recipients at the time. Hence simplicity, and at the same time sophistication of Anakreont poetry.