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	Simonides of Ceos
		Shortly afterwards, Simonides was told that two young men wished to speak to him; after he had left the banqueting room, the roof fell in and crushed Scopas and his guests (Cicero, De oratore, ii.
		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.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/si/simonides_of_ceos.html (850 words)

	Simonides Of Ceos
		Shortly afterwards, Simonides was told that two young men wished to speak to him; after he had left the banqueting room, the roof fell in and crushed Scopas and his guests.
		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.
		The 'Simonides ''Agon' '' as a Pivotal Discourse in Plato's ''Protagoras''
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Simonides_of_Ceos (939 words)

	Simonides of Ceos
		Thomas Bullfinch wrote that Simonides "particularly excelled" in the genre of elegy: "His genius was inclined to the pathetic, and none could touch with truer effect the chords of human sympathy." [2]
		The 'Simonides Agon' as a Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras (http://www.kat.gr/kat/history/Txt/Cl/Plato/AgonSimonides.htm)
		Simonides of Ceos (http://www.bartleby.com/181/253.html) from the Age of Fable by Thomas Bullfinch (at Bartleby.com)
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/SimonidesOfCeos.html (1111 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Simonides of Ceos
		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 JA Symonds in Studies on the Greek Poets.
		Simonides from the Age of Fable by Thomas Bullfinch (at Bartleby.com)
		The 'Simonides Agon' as a Pivotal Discourse in Plato's Protagoras
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos (904 words)

	"At Thermopylae, by Simonides of Ceos" Translation by Eli Siegel
		"At Thermopylae, by Simonides of Ceos" Translation by Eli Siegel
		The two lines of Simonides of Ceos, translated here, have been translated often.
		Simonides shows us this is how he saw it; this is how, as poet, he desired it.
	www.aestheticrealism.net /poetry/Thermopylae-Simonides.htm (147 words)

	Poet: Simonides - All poems of Simonides
		Simonides was a famous lyric poet from the city of Iulis, in the island of Ceos, off the coast of Attica.
		Simonides of Amorgos, iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC; Simonides of...
		Simonides was one of the most prolific of the early poets of...
	www.poemhunter.com /simonides (303 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)

	SIMONIDES OF CEOS - LoveToKnow Article on SIMONIDES OF CEOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		556-469 B.C.), Greek lyric poet, was born at lulis in the island of Ceos.
		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).
		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.
	www.1911ency.org /S/SI/SIMONIDES_OF_CEOS.htm (1486 words)

	SIMONIDES OF CEOS (c. 5... - Online Information article about SIMONIDES OF CEOS (c. 5...
		Marathon Simonides returned to Athens, but soon left for See also:
		money, Simonides replied that he kept two coffers, one for thanks, the.
		style and versification to belong to Simonides of Amorgos, or at least not to be the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIMONIDES_OF_CEOS_c_556_469_BC_.html (2212 words)

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