Though so little is known about Anyte's life, more of her poetry survives than any other ancient Greek woman, with the exception of Sappho.
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Anyte was from Tegea in Arcadia. No reliable information about her life survives, and she can only be approximately dated by the style of her work. She was known for her epigrams, and she introduced rural themes to the genre.
Anyte of Tegea (Greece: early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet. She is named as one of the nine outstanding women poets of antiquity by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology. #CelebratingWomen
Only one story about Anyte's life is preserved. Pausanias claims that Anyte was once visited by the god Asclepius while she was asleep, and told to go to Naupactus to visit a certain blind man there. On doing so, the man was cured, and he built a temple to Asclepius.
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Her precocious talent and rave reviews earned her the attention of the court, where Marie Antoinette took a particular interest in Vallayer-Coster's paintings.
Her life was determinedly private, dignified and hard-working. She survived the bloodshed of the French Revolution, but the fall of the royal family, who were her primary patrons, caused her reputation to decline.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18:
Just as you don't notice everything in a scene at once, your characters need not, either. It's far more interesting to engage with a situation via what your character notices, than to try to reproduce the whole thing.
