Anacreon

American  

[uh-nak-ree-uhn] / əˈnæk ri ən /

noun

1. c570–c480 b.c., Greek writer, especially of love poems and drinking songs.

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Anacreon British  

/ -ən, əˈnækrɪˌɒn /

noun

1. ?572–?488 _bc , Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine

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Example Sentences

Pace exudes a cold calculating menace that borders on sociopathic, while Kubbra Sait, as the grand huntress of the planet of Anacreon, is terrifyingly focused on vengeance above all else.

From The Verge

Key’s poem was set to “To Anacreon in Heaven,” the anthem of a London gentleman’s club, composed by John Stafford Smith sometime in the late 1760s or early 1770s.

From Los Angeles Times

Key wrote something during the night, and back in his hotel room, he did some rewriting and polishing of lyrics that could be sung to the English drinking tune “To Anacreon in Heaven.”

From New York Times

It was attached to a song based on an old drinking tune called “The Anacreon in Heaven” sung at 18th-century British gentlemen’s clubs.

From Washington Times

But it was also a standard when in 1814 Francis Scott Key lifted it whole from “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a drinking song that it turns out was also a sex song: “And besides I’ll instruct you, like me, to entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’ vine.”

From Los Angeles Times