Anacreon (/əˈnækriən/; Greek: Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; c. 575 – c. 495 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks...
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have borne the name HMS Anacreon, named after the Greek poet Anacreon. HMS Anacreon (1799) was the French privateer Anacreon, which HMS Champion captured...
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The Anacreontic Song (redirect from To Anacreon in heaven)
"The Anacreontic Song", also known by its incipit "To Anacreon in Heaven", was the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen's...
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Anacreon was a poet from Ancient Greece. Anacreon may also refer to: Carl Michael Bellman, sometimes referred to as the Anacreon of Sweden Hafez, sometimes...
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Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021 is a video game written by George Moromisato for MS-DOS and published by Thinking Machine Associates in 1987. Anacreon is...
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three kingdoms each weaker than Anacreon, and convinced them that they must resist nuclear power from falling into Anacreon alone. The three issued a joint...
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Anacreontic Society (section "To Anacreon in Heaven")
and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon, who lived in the 6th century B.C. and whose poems, "anacreontics", were...
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Thomas Moore (redirect from Anacreon Moore)
accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic...
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advantage of this power in "Bridle and Saddle" (1942) when one of the planets, Anacreon, declares war on the Foundation. Hardin is voiced by Lee Montague in the...
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Francesco Albani (redirect from Anacreon of Painters)
Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of Albanian origin who was active in Bologna (1591–1600;...
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Smith composed music for the society's constitutional song entitled "To Anacreon in Heaven" (The Anacreontic Song). The words were by Ralph Tomlinson, the...
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Anacréon, ou L'amour fugitif is an opera-ballet in two acts by Luigi Cherubini with a French libretto by C. R. Mendouze. It was premiered on 4 October...
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Anacréon is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau which was first performed at Fontainebleau on 23 October 1754. Its libretto is by Louis de Cahusac. It takes...
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Carl Michael Bellman (redirect from Anacreon of Sweden)
Carl Michael Bellman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈmîːkaɛl ˈbɛ̌lːman] ; 4 February 1740 – 11 February 1795) was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician...
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HMS Anacreon was a French privateer launched in 1798 that the Royal Navy captured in 1799 and took into service. She had a brief career in which she took...
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Les surprises de l'Amour (redirect from Anacréon (Rameau, 1757))
the prologue and added a third entrée, "Anacréon". The composer had written another opera under the title Anacréon in 1754. The earlier work has a libretto...
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Anacreon was launched in 1800 at Sunderland. She initially sailed between London and Minorca and then between 1804 and 1805 she served as an armed defense...
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Foundation universe (redirect from Anacreon (fictional planet))
capital of Anacreon subprefecture, Anacreon prefecture, and Anacreon Province, and later the Anacreon Kingdom. Anacreon is a binary star system. The pair...
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Acraea anacreon, the (large) orange acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kwazulu-Natal and Transvaal and from Angola to Zimbabwe...
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Bertrand Barère (redirect from Anacreon of the Guillotine)
of Terror, combined with his lyrical eloquence, led to his nickname: "Anacreon Of The Guillotine." He changed his stance when the Hébertists called for...
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for the Anacreontic Society, a social club in London. Smiths' song, "To Anacreon in Heaven" (or "The Anacreontic Song"), with various lyrics, was already...
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Hafez (redirect from Anacreon of Persia)
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the...
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as Grand Huntress Phara Keaen (season 1), the top military officer of Anacreon who personally leads a raid on Terminus Kulvinder Ghir as High Claric Poly...
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Anacreontics are verses in a metre used by the Greek poet Anacreon in his poems dealing with love and wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving...
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HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year. Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned...
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"Defence of Fort M'Henry" that was later set to music in the song "To Anacreon in Heaven", which was later known and designated as "The Star-Spangled...
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use his strongest possible arrow to make Hades's stern heart melt. In an Anacreon fragment, preserved by Athenaeus, the author laments how Eros struck him...
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of Horace deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon. Irregular odes use rhyme, but not the three-part form of the Pindaric...
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Aesop – Fables Alcaeus of Mytilene – Lyric Poetry Alcman – Lyric Poetry Anacreon – Lyric Poetry Anaxagoras – Philosophy Anaximander – Philosophy, Mathematics...
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The Greek poet Anacreon (582–485 BC), showing kynodesmē...
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