Simonides

(556 BC-468 BC)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Simonides, ca. 556-467 B.C. LBT ID: Simon468 VIAF ID: 79400131 LOC ID: n85298996	B/BAP: -0556 DIED: -0468
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Greek poet from the Ionian island of Ceos who was thought to have been at the Battle of Marathon; little of his poetry survives.
REFERENCES TO Simonides: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 153 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 1: ¶ 54 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 2: ¶ 36 ¶ 42