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}}Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet born around 570BCE in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor.   <ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0188  " Ana'creon”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> He likely moved to Thrace in 545BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. Following that, he moved to Samos and then to Athens and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons kept being murdered (Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias). <ref>Ibid.</ref>  It is unknown where he died <ref>Ibid</ref>, though he made it to the unusually advanced age of 85 when he died in 485 BCE <ref>Marty Roth, “’Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 42, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 314.</ref><br/>
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}}[[File:AnacreonOdesOfAnacreon1804Illustration.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Portrait of Anacreon.</center>]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacreon Anacreon] was a Greek lyric poet born around 570 BCE in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199548545.001.0001/acref-9780199548545-e-0188  " Ana'creon”] in ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature'', ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).</ref> He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. Following that, he moved to Samos and then to Athens and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons kept being murdered (Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias). <ref>Ibid.</ref>  It is unknown where he died <ref>Ibid</ref>, though he made it to the unusually advanced age of 85 when he died in 485 BCE <ref>Marty Roth, "Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 42, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 314.</ref><br/>
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<br/>Little of Anacreon’s actual works survives, but what does is focused almost solely on wine, love (homosexual and heterosexual) and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium <ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-120 "Anacreon"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).]</ref>   Anacreon utilized language to present clear images of love and to highlight the significant aspects of his writing through various techniques including self-deprecation and irony. <ref>Ibid.</ref> The collection of miscellaneous Greek poems from the Hellenistic Age and beyond known as the ''Anacreontea'' <ref>Ibid.</ref> was “mistakenly labeled” with Anacreon’s name, a fact known and denied through antiquity and the Renaissance, but once the unequivocal truth of the false origin of these poems was known, their previous fame and praise was cast aside in exchange for derision <ref>Roth, “’Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” 316-17.</ref> Unfortunately, despite the later appreciation for the ''true'' Anacreon’s poems, his works were not appreciated contemporaneously or throughout Europe during the Renaissance as the false ''Anacreontea'' <ref>Ibid at 317.</ref>
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This work is a collection of the Odes of Anacreon, translated into English by Thomas Moore and also annotated to provide clarity and additional classical references. The index lists the translated titles of the 79 odes that are included, as well as indicating the presence of fragments.
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Little of Anacreon’s actual works survives, but what does is focused almost solely on wine, love (homosexual and heterosexual) and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium.<ref>[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192801463.001.0001/acref-9780192801463-e-120 "Anacreon"] in ''Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World'', ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).]</ref> Anacreon utilized language to present clear images of love and to highlight the significant aspects of his writing through various techniques including self-deprecation and irony.<ref>Ibid.</ref> The collection of miscellaneous Greek poems from the Hellenistic Age and beyond known as the ''Anacreontea''<ref>Ibid.</ref> was “mistakenly labeled” with Anacreon’s name, a fact known and denied through antiquity and the Renaissance, but once the unequivocal truth of the false origin of these poems was known, their previous fame and praise was cast aside in exchange for derision.<ref>Roth, "Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” 316-17.</ref> Unfortunately, despite the later appreciation for the ''true'' Anacreon’s poems, his works were not appreciated contemporaneously or throughout Europe during the Renaissance as the false ''Anacreontea''.<ref>Ibid, 317.</ref><br />
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This work is a collection of the ''Odes of Anacreon'', translated into English by Thomas Moore and also annotated to provide clarity and additional classical references. The index lists the translated titles of the 79 odes that are included, as well as indicating the presence of fragments.
  
 
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[[File:AnacreonOdesOfAnacreon1804Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Stamp and inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Moore’s Anacreon. p. 8vo." This was one of the books kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson later sold a copy of "Moore's Anacreon" to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to verify Wythe's prior ownership.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:478 (no.4406).</ref> The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1804 Philadelphia edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's inclusion of that edition in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.
  
 
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Odes of Anacreon
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Title page from Odes of Anacreon, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Anacreon
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Translator Thomas Moore
Published Philadelphia: Printed and published by Hugh Maxwell, opposite Christ-church
Date 1804
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Language English
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Pages xvi, [17]-301
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Portrait of Anacreon.
Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet born around 570 BCE in Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor.[1] He likely moved to Thrace in 545 BCE with others from his city when it was attacked by Persians. Following that, he moved to Samos and then to Athens and possibly again to Thessaly, seeking a safe place to write his poems as his patrons kept being murdered (Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, and Hipparchus, brother of Athenian tyrant Hippias). [2] It is unknown where he died [3], though he made it to the unusually advanced age of 85 when he died in 485 BCE [4]


Little of Anacreon’s actual works survives, but what does is focused almost solely on wine, love (homosexual and heterosexual) and the overall pleasures of the legendary Roman symposium.[5] Anacreon utilized language to present clear images of love and to highlight the significant aspects of his writing through various techniques including self-deprecation and irony.[6] The collection of miscellaneous Greek poems from the Hellenistic Age and beyond known as the Anacreontea[7] was “mistakenly labeled” with Anacreon’s name, a fact known and denied through antiquity and the Renaissance, but once the unequivocal truth of the false origin of these poems was known, their previous fame and praise was cast aside in exchange for derision.[8] Unfortunately, despite the later appreciation for the true Anacreon’s poems, his works were not appreciated contemporaneously or throughout Europe during the Renaissance as the false Anacreontea.[9]

This work is a collection of the Odes of Anacreon, translated into English by Thomas Moore and also annotated to provide clarity and additional classical references. The index lists the translated titles of the 79 odes that are included, as well as indicating the presence of fragments.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Stamp and inscription, front flyleaf.
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as "Moore’s Anacreon. p. 8vo." This was one of the books kept by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson later sold a copy of "Moore's Anacreon" to the Library of Congress in 1815, but it no longer exists to verify Wythe's prior ownership.[10] The Brown Bibliography[11] and George Wythe's Library[12] on LibraryThing include the 1804 Philadelphia edition based on E. Millicent Sowerby's inclusion of that edition in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in contemporary full calf with gilt rules, decorative elements, and lettering to spine and boards. Stamped "Sam Hopkins" and inscribed "Hopkins, 1820" on the front flyleaf.

Portrait of Thomas Moore.

References

  1. ↑ " Ana'creon” in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, ed. by M.C. Howatson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  2. ↑ Ibid.
  3. ↑ Ibid
  4. ↑ Marty Roth, "Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 42, no. 3 (Fall 2000): 314.
  5. ↑ "Anacreon" in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, ed. by John Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).]
  6. ↑ Ibid.
  7. ↑ Ibid.
  8. ↑ Roth, "Anacreon’ and Drink Poetry; or, the Art of Feeling Very Very Good,” 316-17.
  9. ↑ Ibid, 317.
  10. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:478 (no.4406).
  11. ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433
  12. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe", accessed October 8, 2013.

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