biography
pronunciation:
[siymonideez, seeo
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| lived:
| (c.556–c.468 BC)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Iulis on the island of Ceos. He travelled extensively, and lived many years in Athens. When Persia invaded Greece he devoted his powers to celebrating the heroes and the battles of that struggle in elegies, epigrams, odes, and dirges, and is noted for his famous epitaph on the three hundred who fell at Thermopylae. He was believed to be the first Greek poet who wrote for fees. |
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