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	XXV. c. Simonides. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simonides passed much of his life at the courts of princes, and often employed his talents in panegyric and festal odes, receiving his reward from the munificence of those whose exploits he celebrated.
		Such digressions were not unusual with the poets on similar occasions, and one might suppose an ordinary mortal might have been content to share the praises of the sons of Leda.
		When Simonides approached to receive the promised reward Scopas bestowed but half the expected sum, saying, “Here is payment for my portion of thy performance; Castor and Pollux will doubtless compensate thee for so much as relates to them.” The disconcerted poet returned to his seat amidst the laughter which followed the great man’s jest.
	www.bartleby.com /181/253.html (529 words)

	Simonides of Ceos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yet Simonides is far from being a hedonist; his morality, no less than his art, is pervaded by that virtue for which Ceos was renowned--self-restraint.
		Simonides here illustrates his own saying that "poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry," a formula that (through Plutarch's De Gloria Atheniesium) became Horace's famous "ut pictura poesis." Of the many English translations of this poem, one of the best is that by J.A. Symonds in Studies on the Greek Poets.
		The 'Simonides Agon' as a Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos (902 words)

	Simonides of Ceos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His reputation as a man of learning is shown by the tradition that he introduced the distinction between the long and short vowels (ε, η, ο, ω), afterwards adopted in the which came into general use during the archonship of Eucleides (403).
		Simonides here illustrates his own saying that "poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry," a formula that (through Plutarch's) became Horace's famous "ut pictura poesis." Of the many English translations of this poem, one of the best is that by JA Symonds in Studies on the Greek Poets.
		The 'Simonides Agon' as a Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras (http://www.kat.gr/kat/history/Txt/Cl/Plato/AgonSimonides.htm)
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Simonides_of_Ceos (944 words)

	Simonides of Ceos - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After the murder of Hipparchus (514), Simonides withdrew to Thessaly, where he enjoyed the protection and patronage of the Scopadae and Aleuadae (two celebrated Thessalian families).
		His reputation as a man of learning is shown by the tradition that he introduced the distinction between the long and short vowels (ε, η, ο, ω), afterwards adopted in the Ionic alphabet which came into general use during the archonship of Eucleides (403).
		Simonides here illustrates his own saying that "poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry." Of the many English translations of this poem, one of the best is that by JA Symonds in Studies on the Greek Poets.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Simonides_of_Ceos (877 words)

	SIMONIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simonides werd geboren te Keos (een van de Cycladen), ca.
		Simonides was de oom van Bacchylides, een andere lierdichter.
		Simonides was een veelzijdig dichter, die alle genres van de koorlyriek beoefende.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/S/Simonides (154 words)

	SIMONIDES OF CEOS - LoveToKnow Article on SIMONIDES OF CEOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His reputation as a man of learning is shown by the tradition that he introduced the distinction between the long and short vowels (e, ij, o, co), afterwards adopted in the Ionic alphabet which came into general use during the archonship of Eucleides (403).
		The epigrams written in the usual dialect of elegy, Ionic with an epic coloring, were intended partly for public and partly for private monuments.
		Simonides here illustrates his own saying that '' poetry is vocal painting, as painting is silent poetry." Of the many English translations of this poem, one of the best is that by J. Symonds in Studies on the Greek Poets.
	68.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIMONIDES_OF_CEOS.htm (1486 words)

	The 'Simonides Agon' as the Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras
		He then reads the verse so that Simonides is saying, "indeed it is truly hard for a man to become good." This reading places the emphasis on the distinction between the position of Simonides and Pittacus so that it appears that the poem is introduced with the purpose of refutation clearly declared.
		That this is the greater implication of the Simonides agon, as realised more fully in the Republic and Phaedo, is made evident from the structure of the concluding arguments of the Protagoras on the nature of arete.
		The Unity of the Platonic Dialogue: the Cratylus, the Protagoras, the Parmenides.
	www.mun.ca /animus/1999vol4/provenc4.htm (3110 words)

	Encyclopedia: Simonides of Ceos
		Originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), the term elegy is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally.
		Simonides (or Semontoes) of Amorgos, Greek iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC.
		He was a native of Samos, and derived his surname from having founded a colony in the neighbouring island of Amorgos.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simonides-of-Ceos (2338 words)

	Encyclopedia: Simonides of Amorgos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The elegy included in the fragments (85) of Simonides of Ceos is more probably by Simonides of Amorgos.
		With Simonides, as with Archilochus of Paros, the iambic is still the vehicle of bitter satire, interchanging with melancholy, but in Simonides the satire is rather general than individual.
		His "Pedigree of Women" may have been suggested by the beast fable, as we find it in Hesiod and Archilochus, and as it recurs a century later in Phocylides; it is clear at least that Simonides knew the works of the former.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simonides-of-Amorgos (295 words)

	Mythography \| The Greek Poet Simonides
		Simonides passed much of his life at the courts of princes, and often employed his talents in pangyric and festal odes, receiving his reward from the munificence of those whose exploits he celebrated.
		In order to diversify his theme, Simonides, who was celebrated for his piety, introduced into his poems the exploits of Castor and Polydeuces.
		When Simonides approached to receive the promised reward Scopas bestowed but half the expected sum, saying, "Here is payment for my portion of thy performance; Castor and Polydeuces will doubtless compensate thee for so much as relates to them." The disconcerted poet returned to his seat amidst the laughter which followed the great man's jest.
	www.loggia.com /myth/simonides.html (459 words)

	Brain Channels - Art of Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simonides was characterized on ancient tablets as being the inventor of the system of memory-aids described as
		Many scholars view Simonides as a turning point in the history of the art of memory due to this shift that occurred within the emergence of a more highly organized society that could implement a new system beyond oral tradition.
		Simonides saw poetry, painting and mnemonics in terms of intense visualization.
	www.brainchannels.com /Memory/history.html (1191 words)

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		Scrutiny of the fragments assigned to an 'Artemisium poem' from the 'new Simonides' reveals that fr.
		The reason for the assignment of this fragment, however, is a supplement that derives from uncertain evidence with little clear connection to a poem by Simonides (West, 1993, 2).
		The greater implications of this conclusion are a better understanding of Simonidesí poetry on the Persian Wars and a clearer definition of the boundaries of historical elegy as a poetic sub-genre.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/kowerski.html (541 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Memory Palaces
		The poet Simonides of Ceos was hired by the noble Scopas to attend a formal banquet as a paid performer, singing a poem of praise of his host.
		At that point, a messenger came in and told Simonides that a couple of athletic men on horseback were outside waiting for him.
		Simonides was able to remember the exact location of every guest at the banquet, using the principles of the Method of Loci, the science of memory.
	mappa.mundi.net /cartography/Palace (1304 words)

	Friesch Dagblad - De buurtsuper: ouderwets én vernieuwend
		Simonides wil niet onderdoen voor de grote supermarkten in de stad.
		Simonides droomt ook van dit technische hoogstandje en misschien is het in de nabije toekomst ook in zijn winkel mogelijk.
		Begin volgend jaar gaat Simonides zijn winkel uitbreiden met een kleine honderd vierkante meter en hij is zeker van plan om dan ook de mogelijkheden voor een zelfscankassa te overwegen.
	www.frieschdagblad.nl /artikel.asp?artID=15913 (836 words)

	The 'Simonides Agon' as the Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sophistic debate between Socrates and Protagoras over Simonides' merit as a poet has generally been dismissed as an interruption in the main argument on whether arete can be taught.
		In terms of the dramatic narrative, Protagoras' introduction of an agon on Simonides enables Socrates to grasp the essential opposition between his own position as 'philosopher' and that of Protagoras as 'sophist', which has caused their argument concerning the nature of arete to break down.
		Quoting Simonides' conclusion that, given man's state, any man who fares well is good, while he who fares ill is bad, Socrates raises the question of who it is that is able to fare well, and who ill.
	www.kat.gr /kat/history/Txt/Cl/Plato/AgonSimonides.htm (3164 words)

	Poet: Simonides - All poems of Simonides
		Simonides was a famous lyric poet from the city of Iulis, in the island of Ceos,...
		Simonides is the author of the poem commented by Socrates in the...
		Simonides was one of the most prolific of the early poets of...
	www.poemhunter.com /simonides/poet-25663 (263 words)

	Oxford World's Classics (Aesop's Fables)
		Simonides accordingly sought out a place of peace and quiet, but the unpromising subject matter hampered his artistic impulse.
		As a result, Simonides relied on the usual poetic license, which allowed him to include the gods Castor and Pollux as part of his poem, alluding to the renown that the sons of Leda, those celestial twins, had also enjoyed in boxing.
		I have invited all my relatives, and I want you to be in their number as well.' Although Simonides had been cheated and was still upset about the loss he had suffered, he agreed to come, not wanting to harm his reputation by parting with his patron on bad terms.
	www.mythfolklore.net /aesopica/oxford/166.htm (404 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.02.28
		Although C. emphasizes Simonides' precision of style, his akribeia, her own style frequently abandons it for a mélange of abstractions and imagery in which language plays meaningless semantic games with language.
		Simonides, whom C. places on the cusp between the old gift economy characterized by xenia and the new commodity economy characterized by coinage, is taken to represent "an early, severe form of economic alienation and the 'doubleness' that attends it" (19).
		C. is aware that it is hard to prove or disprove Simonides' avarice (17), but having concluded that he suffered from economic alienation and "is like someone trying to live upright in an inverted world" (21), she forgets that and repeatedly attributes numerous opinions directly to him.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-02-28.html (4545 words)

	Chapter The Shipwreck of Simonides of The Shipwreck of Simonides by Phaedrus
		Chapter The Shipwreck of Simonides of The Shipwreck of Simonides by Phaedrus
		Simonides, who wrote such excellent lyric poems, the more easily to support his poverty, began to make a tour of the celebrated cities of Asia, singing the praises of victors for such reward as he might receive.
		Simonides chanced to meet them; and, as soon as he saw them, remarked: “I told you that all my property was about me; what you have endeavored to save is lost.”
	www.bibliomania.com /0/5/201/582/18498/1.html (264 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.02.39
		Simonides is the book's star, with Celan as the "something else" that we find in an opening justification for Carson's approach: "Sometimes you can see a celestial object better by looking at something else, with it, in the sky" (viii).
		In her role as commentator on Simonides' work, Carson seems to view part of her task as unending those words that have ended, helping the reader to feel the fire that may have ceased to exist, a fire from a poet long dead.
		In gathering the resources for thinking about Simonides with Celan, Carson's articulates her commitments to poetry, to looking for absences, to attention, but she does not express larger ambitions for her project, certainly not ambitions on the scale of a Marx.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-02-39.html (1590 words)

	Simonides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simonides - King of Pentapolis, father of Thaisa.
		Pericles is shipwrecked in Pentapolis, and wins a jousting contest for the hand of Simonides's daughter, Thaisa.
		Simonides is impressed with Pericles, and tries to jolt him out of his melancholy by offering to be his friend.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/pericles/terms/char_10.html (68 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Moreover, as equal opportunity officer, Simonides was very effec- tive "in bringing into MIT minori- ties and women into senior levels of the administration," Jaffe said.
		Simonides was among the administration officials who in March 1986 ordered police to clear Kresge Oval of shanties erected by students protesting MIT investment in companies doing business in South Africa.
		The union representing the officers accused Simonides of bypassing the union to negotiate directly with the officers.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_114/TECH_V114_S0457_P013.txt (833 words)

	Simonides Of Ceos -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He appears to have originated the epinician ode in honour of victors in the Olympic Games, his epinicion of 520 being the earliest recorded.
		Simonides studied music and poetical composition on Ceos but left as a young man and lived mostly in Athens.
		One of the earliest examples extant is that of Simonides of Ceos, an ode for an Olympic victory in 520 BC.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067863 (801 words)

	Amazon.com: Economy of the Unlost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She explains how the changing economic situation of poets in the fifth century BC accounts for the fact that Simonides was considered the stingiest person of his time (in addition to being one of the smartest).
		Simonides was the most prolific composer of epitaphs in the ancient world, Carson tells us, and set the conventions of the genre.
		The juxtaposition of Simonides and Celan works in spite of the centuries separating their oeuvres; even as she's making connections within the text, one wonders how she's going to pull it off--and then she does.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691036772?v=glance (1455 words)

	SIMONIDES VON KEOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mit diplomatischen Geschick gelang es Simonides, einen Krieg zwischen den Tyrannen Hieron und Theron von Akragas zu verhindern.
		Das umfangreiche Werk des Simonides ist nur äußerst fragmentarisch überliefert.
		Seine modern anmutende Intellektualität und die von seinen Zeitgenossen als befremdend empfundene und als Habsucht mißverstandene Dezidiertheit, mit der Simonides sein Dichten als Gewerbe betrachtete, macht ihn zu einem Vorläufer der Sophisten und zu einem Geistesgenossen des Xenophanes.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/S/Simonides_von_Keos (281 words)

	Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Simonides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Simonides was one of the most prolific of the early poets of Greece, but only a few fragments of his compositions have descended to us.
		When Simonides approached to receive the promised reward Scopas bestowed but half the expected sum, saying, "Here is payment for my portion of the performance, Castor and Pollux will doubtless compensate thee for so much as relates to them." The disconcerted poet returned to his seat amidst the laughter which followed the great man's jest.
		In a little time he received a message that two young men on horseback were waiting without and anxious to see him.
	www.greekhistoryandmythology.com /Greek_Mythology/Greek_Myths/Simonides (460 words)

	Simonides of Ceos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His reputation as a man of learning is shown by the tradition that he introduced the distinction between the long and short vowels (ε, η, ο, ω), afterwards adopted in the Ionic alphabet which came into general use during the archon ship of Eucleides (403).
		The Simonides Group A non-profit organization devoted to remembering the world's military heritage through providing research, restoration, preservation and archaeological support.
		Early Greek Lyric Poets Timeline, links, and other information about the Greek poets Alcaeus, Archilochus, Callinus, Pindar, Sappho, Semonides, and Simonides.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Simonides_of_Ceos.html (1072 words)

	Ben-Hur -- Chapter 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ben-Hur looked as he listened, and where the figure of the man should have been in healthful roundness, there was only a formless heap sunk in the depths of the cushions, and covered by a quilted robe of sombre silk.
		Simonides lifted his left hand, and gave it into hers, lying lovingly upon his shoulder, and said, dispassionately, "I have grown old in dealing with men--old before my time.
		At this allusion Simonides bowed his head, and, as if to help him conceal his feelings and her own deep sympathy, the daughter hid her face on his neck.
	www.litrix.com /benhur/benhu030.htm (2989 words)

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		Pittacus does not say as Simonides says, that hardly can a man become good, but hardly can a man be good: and our friend Prodicus would maintain that being, Protagoras, is not the same as becoming; and if they are not the same, then Simonides is not inconsistent with himself.
		For he was under the impression that a good man might often compel himself to love and praise another, and to be the friend and approver of another; and that there might be an involuntary love, such as a man might feel to an unnatural father or mother, or country, or the like.
		And Simonides, as is probable, considered that he himself had often had to praise and magnify a tyrant or the like, much against his will, and he also wishes to imply to Pittacus that he does not censure him because he is censorious.
	www.eserver.org /philosophy/plato/protagoras.txt (13980 words)

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