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Simonides of Ceos
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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One of the most celebrated lyric poets of Greece; spent most of his life in Athens, employed his poetic powers in celebrating the events and heroes of the Persian wars; gained over Æschylus the prize for an elegy on those who fell at Marathon; composed epigrams over the tombs of the Spartans who fell at Thermopylæ, and in his eightieth year was crowned victor at Athens; shortly after this was invited by Hiero to Syracuse, at whose court he died; his poetry was distinguished at once for sweetness and finish; he was a philosopher as well as a poet (556-467 B.C.).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simonides of Ceos'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/simonides-of-ceos.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Simonides of Ceos'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/simonides-of-ceos.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
