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Simonides and ode
In addition to its musical culture, Ceos had a rich tradition of athletic competition, especially in running and boxing ( the names of Ceans victorious at Panhellenic competitions were recorded at Ioulis on slabs of stone ) making it fertile territory for a genre of choral lyric that Simonides pioneered the victory ode.
Fond of drinking, convivial company and vain displays of wealth, this aristocrat's proud and capricious dealings with Simonides are demonstrated in a traditional account related by Cicero and Quintilian, according to which the poet was commissioned to write a victory ode for a boxer.
As mentioned above, both Cicero and Quintilian are sources for the story that Scopas, the Thassalian nobleman, refused to pay Simonides in full for a victory ode that featured too many decorative references to the mythical twins, Castor and Pollux.
In one victory ode, celebrating Glaucus of Carystus, a famous boxer, Simonides declares that not even Heracles or Polydeuces could have stood against him a statement whose impiety seemed notable even to Lucian many generations later.
* Simonides: An eminent lyrical poet, he is quoted from an ode celebrating a victory in a chariot race ( line 406 ).

Simonides and with
Simonides, the uncle of Bacchylides, was another strong influence on his poetry, as for example in his metrical range, mostly dactylo-epitrite in form, with some Aeolic rhythms and a few iambics.
Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda ( mythology ) | Andromeda and Ketos ; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. Simonides was popularly accredited with the invention of four letters of the revised alphabet and, as the author of inscriptions, he was the first major poet who composed verses to be read rather than recited.
His rivalry there with another chorus-trainer and poet, Lasus of Hermione, became something of a joke to Athenians of a later generation it is mentioned briefly by the comic playwright Aristophanes who earmarked Simonides as a miserly type of the professional poet ( see The Miser below )
These were two of the most powerful families in the Thessalian feudal aristocracy yet they seemed notable to later Greeks such as Theocritus only for their association with Simonides.
According to the rest of the story, Simonides was celebrating the same victory with Scopas and his relatives at a banquet when he received word that two young men were waiting outside to see him.
The first is an epitaph in which the dead man is imagined to invoke blessings on those who had buried the body, and the second records the poet's gratitude to the drowned man for having saved his own life Simonides had been warned by his ghost not to set sail from the island with his companions, who all subsequently drowned.
Plato, in The Republic, numbered Simonides with Bias and Pittacus among the wise and blessed, even putting into the mouth of Socrates the words " it is not easy to disbelieve Simonides, for he is a wise man and divinely inspired ," but in his dialogue Protagoras, Plato numbered Simonides with Homer and Hesiod as precursors of the sophist.
" Stobaeus recorded this reply to a man who had confided in Simonides some unflattering things he had heard said about him: " Please stop slandering me with your ears!
Simonides wrote a wide range of choral lyrics with an Ionian flavour and elegiac verses in Doric idioms.
His rival, Pindar, who identified closely with the aristocratic world and its heroic ethic, never composed anything as thoughtful or sympathetic as the following poem of Simonides ( fr.
" After the publication of Euphues Lyly seems to have entirely deserted the novel form, which was much imitated ( e. g., by Barnabe Rich in his Second Tome of the Travels and Adventures of Don Simonides, 1584 ), and to have thrown himself almost exclusively into play-writing, probably still with a view to the mastership of revels.
The Strange and Wonderful Adventures of Don Simonides, a Gentleman Spaniard ( 1581 ), with its sequel The Second Tome of the Travels and Adventures of Don Simonides ( 1584 ), is written in imitation of Lyly.
Here he became acquainted with the poet Simonides, and other members of the brilliant circle which had gathered round Hipparchus.
The form dates back nearly as early as epic, with such authors as Archilocus and Simonides of Ceos from early in the history of Greece.
It was founded in 1594 by Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski in Zamość ( a city, also founded by Zamoyski ) with the assistance of poet Szymon Szymonowic, aka Simon Simonides ( who would be one of the Academy's lecturers ).
However he is remembered particularly for his bitter clashes with Themistocles and Simonides over the issue of his medizing ( siding with the Persian invaders ), for which he had been banished from his home around the time of the Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis.

Simonides and so
:" Simonides has a simple style, but he can be commended for the aptness of his language and for a certain charm ; his chief merit, however, lies in the power to excite pity, so much so that some prefer him in this respect to all other writers of the genre.
Herodotus also mentions an earlier poet Arion, who had amassed a fortune on a visit to Italy and Sicily, so maybe Simonides wasn't the first professional poet, as claimed by the Greeks themselves.
" Or so it seemed to modern scholars until the recent discovery of papyrus P. Oxy. 3965 in which Simonides is glimpsed in a sympotic context, speaking for example as an old man rejuvenated in the company of his homo-erotic lover, couched on a bed of flowers.

Simonides and many
Simonides has long been known to have written epitaphs for those who died in the Persian Wars and this has resulted in many pithy verses being mis-attributed to him "... as wise saws to Confucius or musical anecdotes to Beecham.
Keeping touch with Simonides, she discouraged many potential buyers of the house by acting as a ghost.

Simonides and references
The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.

Simonides and twins
Simonides however ended up getting much more from the mythical twins than just a fee: he owed them his very life ( see Miraculous escapes ).

Simonides and heroic
The dithyramb, a genre of lyrics traditionally sung to Dionysus, was later developed into narratives illustrating heroic myths ; Simonides is the earliest poet known to have composed in this enlarged form ( the geographer Strabo mentioned a dithyramb, Memnon, in which Simonides located the hero's tomb in Syria, indicating that he didn't compose only on legends of Dionysius.

Simonides and Scopas
During the excavation of the rubble of Scopas ' dining hall, Simonides was called upon to identify each guest killed.

Simonides and him
Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides.
In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: " He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve.
" Cicero related how, when Heiron of Syracuse asked him to define god, Simonides continually postponed his reply, " because the longer I think about it, the fainter become my hopes of an answer.
Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite ( Argonautica 3. 25 – 6 ) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which Sappho made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of ...?
His reputation suffered somewhat through the imposture practised upon him by the Greek Constantine Simonides, who succeeded in deceiving him by a fabricated fragment of the Greek historian Uranius.
An epitaph for him, appearing in the Palatine Anthology, was credited to his rival, Simonides:
Simonides hires his servant Malluch to spy on Judah to see if his story is true and to learn more about him.
Simonides comes to Judah and offers him the accumulated fortune of the Hur family business, of which the merchant has been steward.
He invites Simonides and Balthasar, with their daughters, to live in the house with him.

Simonides and from
Bacchylides's career as a poet probably benefitted from the high reputation of his uncle, Simonides, whose patrons, when Bacchylides was born, already included Hipparchus, tyrant of Athens 527 – 14 BC.
Simonides later benefited from the tragedy by deriving a system of mnemonics from it ( see The inventor ).
" A scholiast, commenting on the passage, wrote: " Simonides seems to have been the first to introduce money-grabbing into his songs and to write a song for pay " and, as proof of it, quoted a passage from one of Pindar's odes (" For then the Muse was not yet fond of profit nor mercenary "), which he interpreted as covert criticism of Simonides.
According to Athenaeus, when Simonides was at Hieron's court in Syracuse, he used to sell most of the daily provisions that he received from the tyrant, justifying himself thus: " So that all may see Hieron's magnificence and my moderation.
It is directly across the road from the hill where Simonides of Ceos's epitaph is engraved in stone at the top.
* Greek Lyric Poetry: from Alcman to Simonides ( Oxford 1936, 2nd revision 2001 )
* Simonides: The famous lyric poet from Ceos, he is said by Philocles to have been the man to whom the above statement was addressed.
The latter proverb was also used by Simonides, whose rivalry with Timocreon seems to have inspired the abusive ' epitaph ' quoted earlier and the epigramatic reply from the Rhodian poet in A. P.
For Ben-Hur, Simonides bribes Sejanus to remove the prefect Valerius Gratus from his post, who is succeeded by Pontius Pilate.
Gaining help from Simonides and Ilderim, he sets up a training base in Ilderim's territory in the desert.
Referring to mnemonic methods, Verlee Williams mentions, " One such strategy is the ' loci ' method, 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 Frances Yates ) and describes some of the most basic aspects of the use of space in the art of memory.
He had a share in exposing the frauds of Constantine Simonides, who had asserted that the Codex Sinaiticus brought by Tischendorf from the Greek monastery of Mount Sinai was a modern forgery of which he was himself the author.

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