User talk:Prounoia/Sandbox

Hi! Hope you don't mind but I removed your categories list as it placed your User:Name on numerous category lists, naming you as an Iambic poet etc, in the company of Archilochus etc. As far as I know, I alone of all WP subscribers deserve to be categorized in such wonderful company, and yet my user name doesn't appear there. McCronion (talk) 06:43, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Semonides (Greek: Σιμωνίδης Ἀμοργῖνος) of Amorgos, was the second, both in time and in reputation, of the three principal iambic poets of the early period of Greek literature, namely, Archilochus, Semonides, 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. 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."

References

• Fragments in T Bergk, Poetae lyrici Graeci

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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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