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Anyte
Hellenistic poet
Anyte of Tegea (Ancient Greek: Ἀνύτη; fl.&#;c.&#; BC) was a Hellenistic poet from Tegea in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally accepted as authentic.
She introduced rural themes to the genre, which became a standard theme in Hellenistic epigrams. She is one of the nine outstanding ancient women poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology.
Anyte of tegea biography for kids
Her pastoral poetry may have influenced Theocritus, and her works were adapted by several later poets, including Ovid.
Life
No reliable information about Anyte's life survives, and she can only be approximately dated by the style of her work.
Based on this, and on possible imitations of her works in the second half of the third century BC, she is generally thought to have been active around BC. According to Julius Pollux, writing in the