An old favorite, discovered in my graduate school days, Anacreon (570–488 BCE) is one of the great poets of drinking parties, the many varieties of love, and the sweetness of life in the shadow of death. . Infatuation from a distance: O sweet boy like a girl, I see you though you will not look …
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Published on December 18, 2023 03:15