When Samos fell to the Persians, the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus made sure to rescue this poet. His popularity was reflected in the statue of him on the Acropolis, and in the many red-figure vases which show him playing the lyre as young men dance around him with abandon. When Francis Scott Key wrote his famous lines, he mat
When Samos fell to the Persians, the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus made sure to rescue this poet. His popularity was reflected in the statue of him on the Acropolis, and in the many red-figure vases which show him playing the lyre as young men dance around him with abandon. When Francis Scott Key wrote his famous lines, he matched them to the tune of a British drinking song that invoked the name of this Greek poet. FTP, name the 6th-century B.C. poet of many drinking songs and frivolous love songs.
When Samos fell to the Persians, the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus made sure to rescue this poet.
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