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The CI Poetry Project

Polycrates

By Gregory Nagy

I am a scribe who writes letters, and my writing gives me power: variations on a theme in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East

By Gregory Nagy

Afterthoughts about Polycrates, Anacreon, and Ibycus

By Gregory Nagy

Polycrates

I am a scribe who writes letters, and my writing gives me power: variations on a theme in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Afterthoughts about Polycrates, Anacreon, and Ibycus

Polycrates and his patronage of two lyric masters, Anacreon and Ibycus