His rule was eulogized by poets like Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides and Pindar, who visited his court.

* 469 BC — death of Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet

* c. 556 BC — Birth of Simonides of Ceos.

** Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet ( b. c. 556 BC )

According to Strabo, he was born in Ioulis, on the island of Ceos, and his mother was the sister of Simonides.

There was a thriving cult of Apollo on Ceos too, including a temple at Carthaea, a training ground for choruses where, according to Athenaeus, Bacchylides's uncle, Simonides, had been a teacher in his early years.

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.

Ceos lies only some fifteen miles south-east of Attica, whither Simonides was drawn, about the age of thirty, by the lure of opportunities opening up at the court of the tyrant Hipparchus, a patron of the arts.

A scholiast on the passage comments that this account was first put forward by Ibycus, and that it was also taken up by Simonides of Ceos.

Prodicus was a native of Ioulis on the island of Ceos, the birthplace of Simonides, whom he is described as having imitated.

* Lost poems of Simonides of Ceos.

Danaë's fearful prayer made while afloat in the darkness has been expressed by the poet Simonides of Ceos.

Pindar, Simonides of Ceos and Hellanicus of Lesbos, contemporaries of Herodotus in the 5th century BC, also all briefly described or referenced the Hyperboreans in their works.

Sophocles ( Antigone, 980-987 ), Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, 193 ; 651 ), Simonides of Ceos ( Schol.

# The Hellenic proper, of which Simonides of Ceos ( c. 556 – 469 BC ), the author of most of the sepulchral inscriptions on those who fell in the Persian wars, is representative.

* Simonides of Ceos, ( c. 556 – 469 BC ), a lyric poet

Hipparchus was a patron of the arts ; it was Hipparchus who invited Simonides of Ceos to Athens.

* Simonides: The famous lyric poet from Ceos, he is said by Philocles to have been the man to whom the above statement was addressed.

They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, and are sometimes called mountain nymphs, oreads ; Simonides of Ceos sang of " mountain Maia " ( Maia oureias ) " of the lovely black eyes.

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.

Astute politicians in Athens often exploited popular feelings against medism as a means to their own advancement, which once led to a feud between the poets Timocreon of Rhodes and Simonides of Ceos for and against Themistocles.

In the classical period Kea ( Ceos ) was the home of Simonides and of his nephew Bacchylides, both ancient Greek lyric poets, and the Sophist Prodicus, and the physician Erasistratus.

In some cases it refers broadly to what is otherwise known as the art of memory, the origins of which are related, according to tradition, in the story of Simonides of Ceos and the collapsing banquet hall.

One of the final images of the film is the memorial bearing the epigram of Simonides of Ceos, which is recited.

Simonides also wrote Paeans and Prayers / Curses () and possibly in some genres where no record of his work survives.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

They had a happy married life and two sons Flavius Justus and Flavius Simonides Agrippa.

Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets which included his uncle Simonides.

Lyrics by his uncle, Simonides, and his rival, Pindar, were known in Athens and were sung at parties, they were parodied by Aristophanes and quoted by Plato, but no trace of Bacchylides ' work can be found until the Hellenistic age, when Callimachus began writing some commentaries on them.

Like Simonides and Pindar, however, Bacchylides composed lyrics to appeal to the sophisticated tastes of a social elite and his patrons, though relatively few in number, covered a wide, geographical area around the Mediterranean, including for example Delos in The Aegean Sea, Thessaly to the north of mainland Greece and Sicily or Magna Graecia in the west.

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 introduced his nephew to ruling families in Thessaly and to the Sicilian tyrant, Hieron of Syracuse, whose glittering court attracted artists of the calibre of Pindar and Aeschylus.

Alexandrian scholars in fact interpreted a number of passages in Pindar as hostile allusions to Bacchylides and Simonides and this interpretation has been endorsed by modern scholars also.

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.

Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.

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.

:" 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.

Few clear facts about Simonides ' life have come down to modern times in spite of his fame and influence.

For example, according to an entry in the Parian Marble, Simonides died in 468 / 7 BC at the age of ninety yet, in another entry, it lists a victory by his grandfather in a poetry competition in Athens in 489 / 8 BC — this grandfather must have been over a hundred years old at that time if the birth dates for Simonides are correct.

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 ...?

Francis Wrangham's ( 1769 – 1842 ) versions are more spirited ; and John Sterling translated the inscriptions of Simonides.

* Simonides – king of Pentapolis

* Thaisa – daughter to Simonides, Pericles ' wife

The War Cemetery in Kohima has the famous inscription " When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today " — The Kohima Epitaph is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds ( 1875 – 1958 ), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph of Simonides written by Simonides to honour the Spartans who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

Simonides, on the other hand, claims that it is impossible to live without ever being a bad man, and even to be a good man on occasion is difficult ( 344a – 45d ).

Socrates ' interpretation is that, since Simonides was a wise man, he must know that no one does any wrong willingly ; accordingly, he must mean that he will willingly praise those who do no wrong, not that some do wrong willingly and others unwillingly, only the latter garnering his praise ( 345d – 46b ).