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SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 132 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIMONIDES (or SEMONIDES) OF AMORGOS , Greek iambic poet, flourished in the middle of the 7th
century
  B.C. He was a native of Samos, and derived his surname from having founded a colony in the neighbouring
island
  of Amorgos. According to Suidas, besides two books of iambics, he wrote elegies, one of them a poem on the early history of the Samians. The elegy included in the fragments (85) of
Simonides
  of Ceos is more probably by
Simonides
  of Amorgos. We possess about thirty fragments of his iambic poems, written in clear and vigorous Ionic, with much force and no little harmony of versification. With Simonides, as with Archilochus, 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. Simonides derives the dirty woman from a hog, the cunning from a fox, the fussy from a dog, the apathetic from earth, the capricious from sea-water, the stubborn from an ass, the incontinent from a weasel, the proud from a high-bred mare, the worst and ugliest from an ape, and the good woman from a bee. The
remainder
  of the poem (96118) is undoubtedly spurious. There is much beauty and feeling in Simonides's description of the good woman.
See Fragments in T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci;
separate
  editions by F. T. Welcker (1835), and especially by P. Malusa 1900), with exhaustive introduction, bibliography and commentary.


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