Author: Anacreon

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• Steven Saylor (1)
  • IN: Raiders of the Nile (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It irks me that Eurypyle, so glamorous, For boorish Artemon has cravings amorous. He used to go out shabby and threadbare With wooden earrings poking from his hair. Wrapped in a smelly oxhide cloak Repurposed from a shield, he was a joke, A good-for-nothing crook and a bore, Seen now with cook, now with whore, Making a criminal living. Often I saw him in the stocks, giving A yelp as he was slapped about And had his hair and beard plucked out. But now the son of Kyke appears In a chariot, with gold rings in his ears, Carrying an ivory sunshade- Worthy of a pretty maid?
    FROM: C. 500 B.C. P OETAE M ELICI G RAECI 43, (-500), Poem, Greece