Simonides of Ceos (/saɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz/; Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556–468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic...
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Simonides may refer to: Simonides of Ceos, (c. 556–469 BC), a lyric poet Simonides the genealogist, author of 3 books called Genealogies and three books...
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research into the recently discovered ice-man. Simonides: Named after the creator of mnemonics, Simonides of Ceos, he is a migrant taxi-driver who throughout...
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which was developed by Simonides, a Greek poet of the fifth and sixth centuries BC." Loftus cites the foundation story of Simonides (more or less taken from...
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Hyperborea (section Location of Hyperborea)
journey to them. Other 5th-century BC Greek authors, like Simonides of Ceos and Hellanicus of Lesbos, described or referenced the Hyperboreans in their...
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Thermopylae (redirect from Temple of Demeter (Thermopylae))
Thebans and Thespians) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides of Ceos in the epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here...
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century BC) Stesichorus of Metauros (choral lyric, 7th century BC) Ibycus of Rhegium (choral lyric, 6th century BC) Simonides of Ceos (choral lyric, 6th century...
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period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending with Gottfried Leibniz and the early emergence of the scientific...
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was, in Horace's day, reserved for painting. Some centuries before, Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 – 468 BC) had stated, "Poema pictura loquens, pictura poema...
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of elegiac poetry in writing come from classical Greece. The form dates back nearly as early as epic, with such authors as Archilocus and Simonides of...
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Maia (redirect from Mya (English Variant of Maia))
oldest of the seven Pleiades. They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, and are sometimes called mountain nymphs, oreads; Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain...
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of Rhodes and Simonides of Ceos, who supported and opposed Themistocles, respectively. Graf, David F. (1984). "Medism: The Origin and Significance of...
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victory in the chariot race at the Olympic Games of 476 B.C. The poet Simonides of Ceos was also active at Theron's court. Polyaenus. "Stratagems in War."...
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across the whole of Greece. According to traditional accounts, the new vowel, Ēta, was originally the innovation of the poet Simonides of Ceos (556-468 BC)...
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Eualcides (category Year of birth unknown)
Persians during the Battle of Ephesus. He competed in the Olympics. The poet Simonides of Ceos composed an ode in celebration of his successes. Molyneux...
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Perseus (category Kings of Mycenae)
darkness, has been expressed by the poet Simonides of Ceos. Mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by the...
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1978. Its narrator and main character is the real-life lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, whose life (ca. 556 BC-469 BCE) spanned the transition from an oral...
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earliest known appearance in culture is a series of epigrams commemorating the dead written by Simonides of Ceos in the battle's aftermath. In Europe, interest...
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revival of the art among medieval Scholastics. The most common account of the creation of the art of memory centers around the story of Simonides of Ceos, a...
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enjoyed the popular support of the people. Hipparchus was a patron of the arts; it was he who invited Simonides of Ceos to Athens. In 514 BC, Hipparchus...
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Lethe (redirect from Waters of Lethe)
in southwest Alaska. Simonides of Ceos, an ancient Greek lyrical poet, references Lethe in the sixty-seventh fragment of one of his poems. In 29 BCE,...
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The 300 Spartans (category Battle of Thermopylae)
the tyranny of Xerxes at Thermopylae. One of the final images of the film is the stone memorial bearing the epigram of Simonides of Ceos, which the narrator...
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statesman, poet. c. 556 BC—Birth of Simonides of Ceos. 555 BC—Death of Stesichorus, Greek lyric poet. September 28, 551 BC—Birth of Confucius, Chinese philosopher...
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Orpheus (redirect from Myth of Orpheus)
greatest of all poets and musicians; it was said that while Hermes had invented the lyre, Orpheus perfected it. Poets such as Simonides of Ceos said that...
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fragments, were composed by Simonides of Ceos in the 520s BC. Simonides was the first professional poet known to write odes in honor of victorious athletes at...
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dabbled with the meter. A famous example of an elegiac couplet is the epitaph composed by Simonides of Ceos which Herodotus says was inscribed on a stone...
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Castor and Pollux (category Family of Calyce)
plays by Euripides, Helen and Elektra. Cicero tells the story of how Simonides of Ceos was rebuked by Scopas, his patron, for devoting too much space...
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7th century BC, native of Samos. Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 BC–469 BC), lyric poet born at Ioulis on Kea; named one of the Nine lyric poets. Solon (Greek:...
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historical writer Qu Yuan, Chinese poet Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet Xenophon, Greek historian and writer Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Greek rhetorician and...
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Nabonidus succeeds Labashi-Marduk as king of Babylon. Simonides of Ceos, approximate date Labashi-Marduk, king of Babylon Neriglissar, king of Babylon v t e...
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