Word: anacreon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surge in population had fattened the cities and fostered Greek colonies from Sicily to Asia Minor, creating the prerequisites for free inquiry and sophisticated taste: prosperity, cosmopolitanism and leisure. An individual voice was being heard, graceful but down to earth, in the new lyric poets like Sappho and Anacreon. Artists began signing their work. On a red-figure drinking cup that shows a young athlete bending over a washbowl, a blunt autograph bends over the image: "Pamphaios made...