Simonides

Simonides ( c.556 - 468 BC) was a poet of ancient Greece. He was perhaps the first poet to write victory odes, a genre in which Pinder later became most famous. Little of his works are extant except in fragments.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passeth by:

Carrying out their order, here we lie.
-epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae, quoted in Herodotus, Histories

Confucius