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    Semonides of Amorgos (/sɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz/; Greek: Σημωνίδης ὁ Ἀμοργῖνος, variantly Σιμωνίδης; fl. 7th century BC) was a Greek iambic and elegiac poet who is...
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    Types of Women (redirect from Semonides 7)
    "Women", and described in critical editions as Semonides 7, is an Archaic Greek satirical poem written by Semonides of Amorgos in the seventh century BC. The...
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    " He was in fact a "misogynist" of the same calibre as the later poet Semonides. He resembles Solon in his preoccupation with issues of good versus evil...
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    Alexandrian scholars collected the works of the other two major iambographers, Semonides and Hipponax, in just two books each, which were cited by number, whereas...
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    Lasana M. Sekou (born 1959), Sint Maarten poet, essayist and journalist Semonides of Amorgos (c. 7th c. BCE), Greek iambic and elegiac poet Léopold Sédar...
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  • called Evrimata (Findings), grandson of Simonides of Ceos the lyric poet Semonides of Amorgos, (7th century BC) an iambic poet whose name was generally spelled...
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  • born on the island of Lesbos in the late 7th century BC; died in 570 BC. Semonides iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC, native of...
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    temple of the goddess Aphrodite stood. In approximately 630 BC, the poet Semonides led the foundation of a Samian colony on Amorgos. The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax...
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    Upanishad Greek: Hesiod: The Theogony and Works and Days Archilochus Alcman Semonides of Amorgos Solon Mimnermus Stesichorus Paleo-Hebrew alphabet Ketef Hinnom...
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    Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC. Archilochus, Semonides, Hipponax, and Others L056) Pindar: Volume I. Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes...
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    though lacking elegy's decorum. The Archaic Greek poets Archilochus, Semonides and Hipponax were among the most famous of its early exponents. The Alexandrian...
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  • – Alcman – Archilochus – Bacchylides – Mimnermus – Pindar – Sappho – Semonides – Simonides of Ceos – Tyrtaeus – Tragedians Aeschylus – Euripides – Sophocles...
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    Grèce : Hésiode, Théognis de Mégare, Callinos, Tyrtée, Mimnerme, Solon, Sémonide d'Amorgos, Phocylide, Pythagore, Aristote (1892) Lucretius. De la Nature...
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    Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati2: Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota, Oxford University Press: Clarendon...
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  • Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati. 2 : Callinus. Mimnermus. Semonides. Solon. Tyrtaeus. Minora adespota, ed. M. L. West, Oxford: Clarendon Press...
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  • c. 640 BC) Archilochus of Paros (born c. 700) Alcman (dates unknown) Semonides Solon (ca. 638–558 BCE) Mimnermus of Colophon (fl. 630-600) Stesichorus...
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  • (1923–1987, Sweden, nf/f/ch) Johann Salomo Semler (1725–1791, Germany, nf) Semonides of Amorgos (fl. 7th c. BCE, Greece, p) Edwin Semzaba (fl. 1982–2016, Tanzania...
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    ocean''—fragment 128 Most archaic poets (including the iambic poets Archilochus and Semonides) were influenced by the Ionian epic tradition, as represented in the work...
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  • York: St. Martin's, 1978) Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, ed., Females of the Species: Semonides on Women (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes, 1975) Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, and Nigel Guy...
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    article in the Suda is obviously misplaced, and belongs to the life of Semonides of Amorgos. Of his grammatical works nothing more is known; but his poems...
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  • Seleucus of Seleucia Sellasia (Laconia) Selloi Semachidae Semachos Semele Semonides of Amorgos Semystra Senex amans Serapion of Alexandria Serenus of Antinoöpolis...
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    consider it more likely that Theognis is from Nisaean Megara. The poet Semonides mentions the port as "the navel of the Nisaians" in another poem about...
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    Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Archilochus, Semonides, Hipponax, Greek Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries...
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  • (1985, p. 129 with n. 1). Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.21.131, "Semonides is assigned to the era of Archilochus; Callinus is not much older" (Σιμωνίδης...
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  • "Appendix III". In Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.). Females of the Species: Semonides on Women. London: Duckworth. pp. 99–101. Boardman, John (3 January 2008)...
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  • August 1, 2014. Edmund Keeley Papers Audio: Edmund Keeley reads C. P. Cavafy's poem Ithaka Audio: Edmund Keeley reads a poem by Semonides of Amorgos...
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  • London: Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-78319-915-0. — (1984). "How Bad a Poem is Semonides Fragment I?". In Gerber, Douglas E. (ed.). Greek Poetry and Philosophy:...
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  • humiliating punishment. The term skeptouchos also appears in the 7th-century BC Semonides. In his Cyropaedia and Anabasis, Xenophon in the 5th-century BC makes...
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