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    Simonides of Ceos (/saɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz/; Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556 – 468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic...
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  • Simonides may refer to: Simonides of Ceos, (c. 556–469 BC), a lyric poet Simonides the genealogist, author of 3 books called Genealogies and three books...
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    Simonides is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1985. The crater is named for Greek lyric poet...
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  • Constantine Simonides (1820–1867) was a Greek palaeographer and dealer of icons, with knowledge of manuscripts and calligraphy. He was one of the most...
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    a distinguished family. They had two sons, Flavius Justus and Flavius Simonides Agrippa. Josephus's life story remains ambiguous. He was described by...
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    Tischendorf was given much weight. Simonides died shortly after, and the issue lay dormant for many years. In answer to Simonides in Allgemeine Zeitung (December...
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    in his Proverbs cite Simonides (c. 556-468 BCE) for a story which involves Talos. Photius's summary of the account by Simonides is that some Sardinans...
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    Choeroboscus as its immediate source: The lyric poet mentioned herein is Simonides of Ceos (6th–5th centuries BC). Despite the testimony of the etymologica...
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  • Jan Simonides Montanus was a Czech composer of the Renaissance era. He was born in Kutná Hora, between 1530 and 1540, and died at the same place, in 1587...
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    Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon...
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    Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 35 Homeric hymn to Pythian Apollo Simonides, Fragment 573 Statius, Thebaid 5. 531 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1. 434 Euripides...
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    Judah visits Simonides, who listens to his story, but demands more proof of his identity. Ben-Hur says he has no proof, but asks if Simonides knows of the...
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    Internet Archive Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others, Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0674995253. Fowler...
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    tradition, in the story of Simonides of Ceos and the collapsing banquet hall. For example, after relating the story of how Simonides relied on remembered seating...
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    Thebans and Thespians) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides of Ceos in the epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That...
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    Szymon Szymonowic (in Latin, Simon Simonides; in Armenian, Շիմոն Շիմոնովիչ; also, in Polish, "Szymonowicz" and "Bendoński"; Lwów, 24 October 1558 – 5...
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    Archive. Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume III: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides, and Others, Loeb Classical Library No. 476, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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    Dorota Elżbieta Simonides (born 1928 Janów) - Polish folklorist and politician. Professor emerita of the Faculty of Philology, Opole University. During...
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    Anthology 7.25 [= Simonides fr. LXVII Loeb = 184 Bergk = 126 Diehl] (see Greek Lyric, Volume III, p. 610). The epigram is ascribed to Simonides, but is "likely"...
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    first fixed in writing by Alcaeus (c. 600 BC), who gave it nine heads. Simonides, writing a century later, increased the number to fifty, while Euripides...
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    prayer, made while afloat in the darkness, has been expressed by the poet Simonides of Ceos. Mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where...
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    Marina The daughter of Thaisa and Prince Pericles. Thaisa The daughter of Simonides, King of Pentapolis, and wife of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. The Duchess...
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  • follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending...
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    Cyllene in Arcadia, and are sometimes called mountain nymphs, oreads; Simonides of Ceos sang of "mountain Maia" (Maiados oureias) "of the lovely black...
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    and more allusive. Greek lyric poets, including Pindar, Bacchylides and Simonides, and bucolic poets such as Theocritus and Bion, relate individual mythological...
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    to Antioch, where he meets with Simonides, a former merchant for the Hur family. Judah remeets with Esther, Simonides's daughter, whom he encountered years...
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    the Battle of Thermopylae itself, two principal sources, Herodotus' and Simonides' accounts, survive. Herodotus' account in Book VII of his Histories is...
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    plays by Euripides, Helen and Elektra. Cicero tells the story of how Simonides of Ceos was rebuked by Scopas, his patron, for devoting too much space...
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  • their today. This epitaph was inspired by an epigram of the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos to the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae, and was later used...
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    "Physcus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. Simonides frag 13, from Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus 870f Pausanias, 1.31...
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