Semonides of Amorgos
For the lyric poet, see Simonides of Ceos
Semonides (Ancient Greek: Σιμωνίδης Ἀμοργῖνος) of Amorgos, was an ancient Greek poet who composed verses in the iambus genre, for which reason he is often associated with two of its other celebrated exponents, Archilochus and Hipponax. The chief information which we have respecting him is contained in two articles of the Suda from which we learn that his father's name was Crines, and that he was originally a native of Samos. Although the Suda makes him a contemporary of Archilochus, modern scholars generally consider his floruit to be somewhat later.[1] The statement of the Suda that he flourished 490 years after the Trojan War, would place him in the seventh century BC.
He is best known today for fr. 7, often titled "On Women." [2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary s.v. Semonides
- ^ translation and notes at Diotima
[edit] References
- Fragments in T Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
[edit] External links
- Audio: A poem by Semonides of Amorgos read by poet and translator Edmund Keeley from The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (2010, W. W. Norton)
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