Simonides
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- Simonides of CeosSimonides of CeosSimonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides and Pindar...
, (c. 556–469 BC), a lyric poet - Semonides of AmorgosSemonides of AmorgosFor the lyric poet, see Simonides of CeosSemonides 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...
, (7th century BC) an iambic poet - Flavius Simonides AgrippaFlavius Simonides AgrippaTitus Flavius Simonides Agrippa, also known as Titus Flavius Agrippa was an aristocratic, wealthy Roman Jew.Agrippa was born and raised in Rome. He was the second son born to the Roman Jewish Historian Josephus and from his fourth wife, a distinguished unnamed Greek Jewish noblewoman from Crete...
, son of Roman Jewish Historian JosephusJosephusTitus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of... - Constantine SimonidesConstantine SimonidesConstantine Simonides , palaeographer, dealer of icons, man with extensive learning, knowledge of manuscripts, miraculous calligraphy...
, 19th-century forger of 'ancient' manuscripts