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ANYTE OF TEGEA C. 300 BCE

This relatively unknown Greek poet is the author of more complete, extant poems than Sappho. She was so well-loved in ancient times that Antipater of Thessalonica, a writer from the first century BCE, called her "a woman Homer." Twenty-four of her epigrams (short poems that make a point) were collected, along with other early Greek works, by Meleager of Gadara in about 90 BCE. Anyte never wrote about love, but sometimes wrote about animals and landscape, two unconventional subjects for epigrams.

"This place is sacred to the goddess. Here her constant pleasure is to watch the sea as it shimmers from the shore, and ensure the comfort of sailors; all around the ocean trembles as it gazes on her statue, oil-smooth." Anyte of Tegea, in a dedication to Aphrodite

Janet L. Boyd

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