Simônidês, Krineô, Amorginos, iambographos. egrapsen elegeian en bibliois b#, iambous. gegone de kai autos meta #4# kai u# etê tôn Trôïkôn. egrapsen iambous prôtos autos kata tinas.
Some of this material has been accidentally transferred from the entry on
Semonides to
sigma 431,
Simmias, which reads: 'He was originally a Samian. In the colonization of
Amorgos he himself was also appointed leader by the Samians. He established
Amorgos as three poleis (city-states), Minoia, Aigialos, Arkesime. He was born 406 years after the Trojan War. And he wrote, according to some, first iambics [?'the first iambics'], and other different (genres) and the
Archaeology (sc. Early history) of the Samians'.
This writer was known as
Simonides of
Amorgos in antiquity. The name
Semonides occurs in antiquity only on a fragment of
Philodemus (
De Poet. = PHerc 1074 fr. F, col. III 5, ed. Sbordone), who elsewhere mentions
Simonides of Ceos, and in a citation of
Choeroboscus in
Etym. Gen. et Magn. 713.17. It is generally accepted that he was born on
Samos and joined in the Samian colonization of the island
Amorgos.
Proclus also mentions that some called him a Samian. He would thus be a contemporary of
Archilochus in the 7th. Century BC, and the date given here might be correct.
His best known surviving fragment proposes that women derive their qualities from different animals, and is much used as a source for the study of ancient Greek male attitudes towards women. His iambic poetry anticipates in its pessimism, obscenity and sense of amusement those aspects of Roman satire.
A fragment of an elegy based on
Homer's simile "As is the generation of leaves" (
Iliad 6.146-9), quoted in
Stobaeus (4.34.28) as by
Simonides, but formerly attributed by Bergk and others to
Semonides (frag.29 Diehl), proves, from the evidence of the "new
Simonides" POxy 3965, fr.26, to be a joining of two fragments by
Simonides of Ceos (see
sigma 439). But see Hubbard's dissent.
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