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Ion of Chios
Ion of Chios was a Greek poet and prose writer of the fifth century BCE who spent much of his life in Athens. He wrote tragedies, lyric poetry and a work of reminiscences describing meetings with Sophocles, Pericles and Cimon, one of the earliest examples of memoir in Greek. He also recorded the island's foundation legends in a history of Chios.
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