Anacreon

Anacreon, the Greek lyric poet, is said to have been a descendant of Codrus, King of Athens, and to have been born at Teos in Ionia about 562 B.C. Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, invited him to his court, and there he spent much of his life amidst the pleasures of love and wine, which form the only themes of his graceful and spirited odes. According to legend he died at the age of 85 from the lodgment of a grape-stone in his windpipe. He has given his name to a school of poetry, and it must be admitted that few of his followers have adorned sensuality with so light and delicate a touch.