BMCR 2024.02.45 Veronika Lütkenhaus, And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: the reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's lyric and iambic poetry. Hypomnemata, 217. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 213. ISBN 9783525311516. Review by Robert A. Rohland, Trinity College, Cambridge. rar50@cam.ac.uk Preview Crowned with clusters of the vine, Let us sit, and quaff our wine. Call on Bacchus, chant his praise; Shake the thyrse, and bite the bays: Rouse Anacreon from the dead, And return him drunk to bed: Sing o’er Horace, for ere long Death will come and mar the song: Robert Herrick, A Lyric to Mirth, ll. 5–12 That Horace’s lyric and Anacreontic poetry have much in common is an insight which traditionally has been more keenly felt by poets than carefully discussed by scholars. And while not every poet has cited his sources as diligently as Herrick, many Anacreontic poems by Pierre de Ronsard, Abraham Cowley, Christoph Martin Wieland and others blend Horace’s mellow Sabine wine with Anacreon’s stronger mixture as they sing of Wein, Weib und Gesang. Veronika Lütkenhaus lets sober scholarship have a word on the topic, as her book analyses “the reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace’s lyric and iambic poetry”, as the subheading puts it.