Anacreon
A famous lyric poet of Teos, in Ionia, favored by Polycrates and Hipparchus, son of Philostratus. He was of intemperate habits and fond of pleasure. Some of his Odes are extant, and the beauty of his poetry has been the admiration of every age and country. He lived to the age of eighty-five, and after a life of pleasure was choked with a grape-stone. He flourished B. C. 532. The Odes have been translated into English by Moore, Cowley, and others.