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Simonides of Ceos

c. 556–468 BCE · 5th century BCE · Also known as Simonides

Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet from Ioulis on the island of Keos. He wrote victory odes, laments and epigrams for patrons across the Greek world, including the tyrants of Athens and Thessalian lords, and his epitaphs for the dead of Thermopylae and the Persian Wars were famous. He spent his last years at the court of Hieron I in Syracuse.

Simonides of Ceos
Image: Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; Text: Hartmann Schedel · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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