An Issue of Methodology: Anakreon, Perikles, Xanthippos

Standard assumptions about the portrait of Anakreon known through works of the Roman period are here reviewed in light of all available evidence. Pausanias\u27s mention of a statue of the Ionic poet on the Athenian Akropolis has led to extensive conjectures about Anakreon\u27s relationship to Perikles\u27 family and the message such a monument was meant to convey. The possibility is raised that the known portrait was created later than ca. 440, and, more specifically, that the full-body representation now in Copenhagen served the requirements