The tempus edax rerum - time devourer of all things - probably has a debt with any ancient writer but, perhaps, with Anacreon there was a greater fury: his vast literary output, at least five books, have come to us a few epigrams content Palatine Anthology, as well as some indirect quotations from other authors. The Alexandrian taste then crystallized the figure of the poet Teo in order to deliver to the history of Western culture, a poet devoted only the love of boys and wine. Yet just read its fragments to understand how this court poet, lived in the second half of the sixth century. C. So dawn of a world that was changing radically, has been able to sing, in a refined and careful moderation trying, through his art, to offer lessons that were much appreciated by the peripatetic philosophers. Happy and both her ​​choices were various metrics that the arguments of his poetry through which Anacreon not only relates to its predecessors, but also anticipates some topoi of Greek literature to follow.
The fragments translated here trying to weld, minimally, the debt to Anacreon.