Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deianira, Krater, Red-Figure Pottery

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Anacreon was a monody poet who was celebrated in antiquity for his love of wine, he was esteemed by the elite and his songs were probably sung at symposia (drinking parties). This fragment talks about falling in love and being rejected. This is one of the most controversial fragments of early greek poetry. For the poet love is always familiar (here he says once again") and in greece falling in love is a painful process and is seen almost as being a disease. It is a force that exists outside you and acts upon you. The feminine gender of the word in greek shows us that it is something feminine that she is interested in. Many scholars think that she is interested in another woman, which they support with the fact that the poet explains that she is from lesbos. This isn"t necessarily right because everything that we think hinges on the interpretation of lesbos.