Simonides of Ceos

Simonides of Ceos (556-467 BC) was one of the most celebrated lyric poets of Greece. He spent most of his life in Athens, employed his poetic powers in celebrating the events and heroes of the Persian wars. He gained over Aeschylus the prize for an elegy on those who fell at Marathon. He composed epigrams over the tombs of the Spartans who fell at Thermopylæ, and in his eightieth year was crowned victor at Athens. Shortly after this was invited by Hiero to Syracuse, at whose court he died. His poetry was distinguished at once for sweetness and finish. He was a philosopher as well as a poet.

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