Simonides of Ceos
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Lessing, writing in the Enlightenment era, referred to him as "the Greek Voltaire." His general renown owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men; as a greedy miser; as an inventor of a system of mnemonics; and the inventor of some letters of the Greek alphabet (). Such accounts include fanciful elements, yet he had a real influence on the sophistic enlightenment of the Classical era. His fame as a poet rests largely on his ability to present basic human situations with affecting simplicity. In the words of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian (35–100 AD):
He is popularly associated with epitaphs commemorating fallen warriors, as for example the Lacedaemonians at the Battle of Thermopylae:
| Tell them in Lacedaemon, passer-by That here, obedient to their word, we lie,|attr2=Translated by F. L. Lucas
as an English heroic couplet}}
Today only glimpses of his poetry remain, either in the form of papyrus fragments or quotations by ancient literary figures, yet new fragments continue to be unearthed by archaeologists at Oxyrhynchus, a city and archaeological site in Egypt that has yielded papyrus fragments from over a century of excavations. He is included in narratives as diverse as Mary Renault's modern historical novel ''The Praise Singer'' (where he is the narrator and main character), Plato's ''Protagoras'' (where he is a topic of conversation), and some verses in Callimachus' ''Aetia'' (where he is portrayed as a ghost complaining about the desecration of his own tomb in Acragas). Provided by Wikipedia
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