Anacreontis odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata. Accedunt variæ lectiones - Anacreon 582 BC-485 BC; Forster, Edward A. M. 1769-1828; Barnes, Joshua 1654-1712 (London Howlett, 1813)
This edition of Anacreon was originally published in 1802 for which William Bulmer furnished a Greek font; the title-plates and vignettes were by Lavinia Forster.
Anacreon (582 BC-485 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry, it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals and the observations of everyday people and life.
Edition based on the one of Joshua Barnes (1705)
3 poems are translated in english, pensil, manuscript
cura Edvardi Forster
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); Poetry