Anyte of tegea biography of michael
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A Bird called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology, translated and arranged by David Constantine • Philip Gross: The Shores of Vaikus • Claire Dyer: The Adjustments • Rachel Carney: Octopus Mind• Marin Bodakov: The Chaos of Desire• Nia Broomhall: Backalong
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A Bird called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology, translated and arranged by David Constantine. Bloodaxe Books, £12. Reviewed by Merrym Williams
The Greek Anthology is a collection of some 4500 epitaphs and short poems from the ancient world, written over 1500 years by about 300 authors. Of these, the best known is Sappho, but there are also semi-familiar names, like Meleager or the prolific Leonidas of Tarentum. David Constantine has translated and arranged a few hundred for the benefit of those who know the Greek myths, but not the Greek language. He says he wouldn’t actually pass GCSE in that subject, but as he is a splendid poet, it hardly matters.
Most poems are only four to eight lines long, sometimes shorter. Too often they are about grief, like this by one of the few women in the anthology, Anyte of Tegea:
Beloved and unwedded child of mine
Leaving me childless so we shall remain.
I visit a likeness of you made of st•
Anyte of Tegea (Ἀνύτη Τεγεᾶτις, "Anýtē Tegeâtis"; fl. early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet.[2]
Life[]
Overview[]
Anyte is 1 of the 9 outstanding ancient women poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology.[3] He called her the female Homer because her poetry was so admired.[2] She was among the first Hellenistic poets to write bucolic poetry that praised life in the country.[4] She was called "Anyte the lyric poet" in antiquity, although none of her lyric poetry has survived.[5] Likewise, Pausanias refers to her epic poetry, but none of it has survived.[5]
Biography[]
Anyte was from Tegea in Arcadia, which is a mountainous region in the middle of the Peloponnese. No reliable information about her life survives, and she can only be approximately dated by the style of her work. By examining her work, scholars have determined that she was writing during the beginning of 300s BCE; her birth year is estimated to be between 340 and 320 BCE.
Only a single story about Anyte's life is preserved, in which Pausanias claims in his work Description of Greece that Anyte was once visited by the god Asclepius while she was asleep, and told to go to Naupactus to visit a certain blind man there.